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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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The Poetic Function of the Stage Audience and Embedded Performance in Drama
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between the on-stage performance and the theater performance, as well as the onstage audience and the theatre audience, in plays that have embedded performances.
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Anti-style and the postmodernist novel
TL;DR: A consideration of attitudes towards style in contemporary narratives leads to the conclusion that decorum and convention are often deliberately marked in order to draw attention to their artificiality as discussed by the authors, and that a critical stance is often adopted towards adequate or appropriate styles, so that anti-style, or a deliberate break with decorum or uniformity, highlights the fictitious nature of what is narrated.
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Directions in Sociolinguistics Jennifer Coates and Deborah Cameron (eds.), Women in their speech communities London and New York: Longman, 1988. Pp. viii + 191.
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Darwin’s Theory of Music, Rhetoric and Poetry
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolutionary theory of human music, rhetoric and poetry is discussed, and the evolutionary heritage from previously evolved musical capacities Darwin diagnosed in verbal language, more specifically in its artful elaboration in poetry and rhetoric, is discussed.
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H.d.'s "mid-day': a linguistic approach
TL;DR: Apos situar H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) dentro do movimento imagista, this artigo-apresenta uma abordagem linguistica de um of seus primeiros poemas, "Mid-day", a fim de resgatar algumas de suas caracteristicas that nao foram detectadas pelos criticos as discussed by the authors.
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Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
TL;DR: The concept of indexical order is introduced in this article to analyze how semiotic agents access macro-sociological plane categories and concepts as values in the indexable realm of the micro-contextual.
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Language Style as Audience Design
TL;DR: The basic principle of language style is that an individual speaker does not always talk in the same way on all occasions as discussed by the authors, which is one of the most challenging aspects of sociolinguistic variation.
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The four elementary forms of sociality : framework for a unified theory of social relations
TL;DR: The motivation, planning, production,production, comprehension, coordination, and evaluation of human social life may be based largely on combinations of 4 psychological models: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, market pricing and market pricing.
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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.