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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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The simplicity complex: exploring simplified health messages in a complex world
TL;DR: It is proposed that a richer, more theory-based understanding of text structures and functions, along with other powerful constructs, including cultural appropriateness, relevancy and context, are needed to close the gaps between health messages, health messengers and patients/the public.
Challenges in Implementing a Mother Tongue-based Language in- Education Policy: Policy and Practice in Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the challenges faced in implementing Kenya's language-ineducation policy, which advocates mother tongue-based learning, and argue for greater resource allocation, political will and clearer policy objectives to achieve the aims of an effective mother tongue based education system in Kenya.
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Penguins don't care, but women do: A social identity analysis of a Whorfian problem*
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“Catherine, you’re wasting your time”: Address terms within the Australian political interview
TL;DR: This paper used conversation analysis to show the multiple interactional uses of address terms within the context of the Australian political news interview and found that both journalists and politicians address their co-participant by name.