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Style in Language
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This article is published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.The article was published on 1961-09-01. It has received 763 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Style (sociolinguistics).read more
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Unequal Relationships in High and Low Power Distance Societies A Comparative Study of Ibtor-Student Role Relations in Britain and China
TL;DR: This paper investigated people's conceptions of an unequal role relationship in two different types of society: a high power distance society and a low power distance one, focusing on the role relationship of tutor and student.
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Naming practices and the power of words in China
TL;DR: The authors examines kinship terms, pronouns, and proper names in China, in an overall framework termed "naming" that demonstrates the performative power of uttering relational terms, especially by the junior in the relationship.
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Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (I)
TL;DR: The authors return to the three narrative universals from another viewpoint, that of false cognitivist pretenders to the title, as in Brewer et al., who appear at times under the guise and the very name of the genuine article, yet essentially align with their naked disciplinary equivalents.
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Large and small scale forms of personhood
TL;DR: The authors describes how forms of mediation are segmented into mediatized forms through links among discursive and commodity-based practices, and focuses on the processes through which the cultural form known as "the liberal subject" was re-scaled through mediated practices in early modern Europe, a consideration of which clarifies the causes underlying its present day anxieties.
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Conceptualizing organizational discourse as situated symbolic action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptualization of organizational discourse as situated symbolic action, drawing from the fields of speech act theory, rhetoric, ethnography of communication and social constructionism.
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Language Style as Audience Design
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Language and Gender
TL;DR: Language and Gender as discussed by the authors is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field, who argue that the connections between language and gender are deep yet fluid, and arise in social practice.
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Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese
TL;DR: This paper presented an account of politeness phenomena in modern Chinese and made a critical comparison between western notions of face and politeness and their Chinese counterparts, and four politeness maxims are formulated and illustrated.