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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"style shifting"”.
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Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call
… were found. With the purpose of accounting for style-shifting and linguistic strategies, the quantitative analysis will look at the frequency distribution of non-contracted forms for evidence of elision avoidance, and verify whether the director uses careful articulation by analyzing the number …
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Speech style, syllable stress, and the second-language acquisition of Spanish /e/ and /o/
This study examines the effects of speech style, syllable stress, and proficiency level on the production of the second-language (L2) Spanish vowels /e/ and /o/. The study addresses traditional descriptions of L2 Spanish (e.g. Stockwell & Bowen, 1965), which claim that English-speaking learners, …
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What are they learning?: Negotiations of language and identity within a third space after school program
… ascribed and avowed identity production; and style shifting as an element within third space. Data were collected during a sixteen week of staff and youth ages six to ten who participated in the after school program. The research followed the staff and youth across their after school …
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“Teachers should have knowledge of different types of music”: a case study of culturally sustaining pedagogy in three high school choral programs
… of cultural dexterity, code-switching, and style shifting, interstitial space between styles, and developing connections. The implications of this research pertain to proposed changes in music teacher preparation and in-service music educator professional development. These changes could …
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Variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English
… of English. The study investigates patterns of style shifting in the speech performance of the Malaysian learners of English as they vary according to various stylistic environments i.e. verbal tasks viz, minimal pairs reading, word list reading, dialogue reading and free conversation …
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Talking black in public spaces: an investigation of identity and the use of preaching style in black pubic speech
… this study illustrates how shifts in speaking style can help speakers manage the presentation of controversial political and social messages. While the speakers in this study make limited use of hallmark vernacular features of AAE (such as copula deletion and invariant be), they consistently …
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Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative.
… and cannot accout for narrative dynamics and style shift. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative examination of the data (which draws mainly on Narrative and Discourse Analysis) forms the major part of the analysis. The study first analyses features common to all the narratives, direct speech, …
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The myth of a homogeneous speech community: The speech of Japanese women in non-traditional gender roles
… collaborative rapport and peer solidarity, style-shifting of the predicate to negotiate the distribution of power, and strategic uses of polite language as an indexicality of their occupational status and identity rather than as a marker of powerlessness in conflict talk.