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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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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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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.
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The social life of cultural value
TL;DR: The authors discuss the emergence and spread of a prestige register of spoken British English, nowadays called Received Pronunciation, and propose specific models for understanding the circulation of discourse across social populations and the means by which these values are recognized, maintained and transformed.
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Three orders in the organization of human action: On the interface between knowledge, power, and emotion in interaction and social relations
Melisa Stevanovic,Anssi Peräkylä +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the basic facets of human social relations are seen as being anchored in three orders (epistemic order, deontic order, and emotional order), each of which pertains to action recognition.
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Text messaging, personality, and the social context
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the language used in text messaging varies as a function of personality traits and the interpersonal context, and find significant correlations between certain LIWC categories and extraversion, neuroticism and agreeableness.
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Language play, a collaborative resource in children’s L2 learning
Asta Cekaite,Karin Aronsson +1 more
TL;DR: Within communicative language teaching, natural language has had a privileged position, and a focus on formhas been seen as something inauthentic or as something thatis inconsequential for learnin...
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Children's Performance on a Spatial Analogies Task.
TL;DR: Gentner et al. as discussed by the authors found that preschool children can apply body-parts analogies to pictures as consistently as adults when the mappings were made more difficult by varying the orientation of the pictured objects or by adding misleading pictorial details to the pictures.
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Managing rapport in lingua franca sales negotiations: A comparison of professional and aspiring negotiators
TL;DR: Spencer-Oatey et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated how facework is used to achieve interpersonal goals in intercultural sales negotiations and found that professionals frequently initiate safe talk throughout their negotiations, aspiring negotiators engage in safe talk sporadically, and only in the initial and final stages of a negotiation.