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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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Selling the Market Educational Standards, Discourse and Social Inequality
TL;DR: The authors analyzes interactional figures and socio-political themes involved in the elite and non-elite discourse of standards, with particular focus on the neo-liberal trope of a new era of work and associated fears of increasing inequality.
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Metaphor as argument: A stylistic genre-based approach
TL;DR: One of the most intriguing questions in both stylistic and rhetorical analyses relates to determining textual effect on readers, aesthetic or otherwise, is whether the power of the text is directly as...
Archaism and Innovation in Latin Poetic Syntax
TL;DR: A number of syntactic patterns that are familiar features of classical poetry show divergences from the norms of formal prose, and in many instances it has been claimed that an archaic pattern has been preserved or adopted and has become part of the distinctively poetic language as mentioned in this paper.
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Creating speech register in Thai conversation
TL;DR: This paper analyzed four different conversations, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in order to observe how speech register is created in different types of interaction, thereby going beyond simple taxonomic description of sociolinguistic signs.
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Vouvoiement and tutoiement: sociolinguistic reflections
TL;DR: The authors provide a critical review of research on the T/V choice in French and an analysis of this alternation in terms of markedness, variation and change, concluding that T is a non-probabilistic phenomenon and therefore not a sociolinguistic variable, in the Labovian sense.