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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Audience design"”.
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Mechanisms of conversation: audience design and memory
… to facilitate understanding. How this process of audience design scales up to conversations among three or more individuals is unknown. Further, while memory is thought to play an essential role in audience design, the link between memory for language and language use is not well explored. This …
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Trill maintenance and replacement in Chichewa : a study on newsreaders' speech from three radio stations in Malawi
… Labov's sociolinguistic theory and Bell's audience design theory form the basis of this study. Fifteen participants whose speech was recorded for analysis are news readers of both genders, belonging to the young and middle age groups, and are either first or second language users of …
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Choosing referring expressions
This thesis focuses on the issue of how language users refer to an entity during discourse production, by investigating representations and processes that underlie the choice between pronouns and repeated noun phrases. Past research has shown that the use of pronouns (relative to more explicit …
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ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIABLES IN CURATED SPEECH: A STUDY OF STYLISTIC VARIATION OF LIAISON, SCHWA AND NE AMONG CONTEMPORARY FRENCH POLITICIANS
… to sound authentic and convincing to its audience. The three linguistic elements show considerable variation in the corpus, and the conditioning of variation is similar to what has been reported for spontaneous, less formal, speech. Results indicate that politicians produce higher levels …
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This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus
… interactions, showing potential influence of audience design (Bell, 1984) or linguistic accommodation strategies (Giles, Coupland, & Coupland, 1991a, 1991b; Giles & Ogay, 2007).</p> <p>The third study reported in this dissertation concerns speaker attitudes toward language, gender, and …