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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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Shifting voices with participant roles: Voice qualities and speech registers in Mesoamerica
TL;DR: The authors presented a case study of Lachixio Zapotec speech registers indexed though falsetto, breathy, creaky, modal, and whispered voice qualities and tracked a speaker on a single evening where she switches between three of these registers.
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Personal reference in English
TL;DR: This paper explored the social factors involved in how speakers choose a referring expression in a given situation, and found that speakers were sensitive to the level of intimacy between the speaker and referent, between the addressee and refernt, and between a nonparticipating audience and the referent.
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Character and reader emotions in literary texts
TL;DR: This paper performed two multiple regression analyses to examine to what extent variability in character emotion and suspense could be predicted by the strength of other story aspects, such as pragmatic intent, imagery, literary devices, and indeterminacy.
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Linguistic reference in the negotiation of identity and action: Revisiting the T/V distinction
TL;DR: This article used conversational data from various dialects of Spanish to examine the role of second-person (T/V) reference forms in the accomplishment of social action in interaction and demonstrate how the turn-by-turn progression of talk can occasion shifts in the linguistic means through which speakers refer to their hearers, an interactional commonality between dialects (and possibly languages) that are otherwise pronominally dissimilar.
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“Direct” and “indirect” communicative acts in semiotic perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that the interaction of pragmatic (indexical) norms for contextualizing language and the local culture's ethno-metapragmatics determines the equivalent of what Western e.g. e.