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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 problem of iconicity
TL;DR: In this paper, Peirce's and Jakobson's definitions of iconicity point to the question of similarity: both the similarity between the signifier and the signified, and similarity within the context of the linguistic system.
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Writer’s argumentative attitude: A contrastive analysis of ‘Letters to the Editor’ in English and Italian
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of English and Italian letters to the editor published in the British and Italian print media is presented, focusing on the cultural context in which the letters are produced with particular reference to the role of language, argumentation, the press and the genre Letters to the Editor in England and Italy.
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Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius: On the mediality of language in religion
TL;DR: The authors explored how language as a medium converges and interacts with media technologies of other kinds and suggested that the oscillation between a foregrounding of the medium and its phenomenological withdrawal characterizes the functioning of both linguistic mediation and other media technologies and provided a comparative dimension to examine their interplay.
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“The War of the Saints”: Religion, Politics, and the Poetics of Time in a Sicilian Town
TL;DR: Gruzinski as discussed by the authors pointed out that the Corpus Domini was not a moment of controlled expression of the political tensions in colonial Mexican society, but rather an occasion in which and by means of which the various Corpora constituting that society could publicly display and negotiate status, power, and prerogatives.
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Linguistic Creativity, Secondary Orality, and Political Discourse: The Modern Greek Myth of the "Eloquent Orator"
TL;DR: The use of tropes is one of the most striking features of Greek political discourse as discussed by the authors, and they are used not merely to decorate political speeches and render them more appealing to the audience, but, most importantly, to criticize the opponent(s) and project certain aspects of political identity.