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Johnstone, Barbara – Language in Society, 1991
Review of transcripts of supposedly invariant opinion surveys reveals, rather than suppressing their individual linguistic styles, interviewers make changes in scripted introduction and add unscripted answer-acknowledgments and commentary throughout interviews. Although this is a response to U.S. value of individuality in discourse, it conflicts…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Interviews, Language Styles, Language Variation

Lippi-Green, Rosina L. – Language in Society, 1989
The quantification of communication network integration provides valuable information for the study of language change in very small rural communities such as Grossdorf, Austria. The approach is particularly relevant when study of aggregate group behavior has failed to yield results due to small sample size or group internal inconsistency. (26…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, Foreign Countries, German