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Peer reviewedJay, Timothy B. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines how one interprets and reacts to dirty-word descriptors. Subjects judged how much they would like a fictitious person described with dirty and non-dirty adjective pairs. Liking was influenced by: (1) semantic interpretation, (2) intrinsicalness of the adjective for the person described, and (3) contextual relations between speaker and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Usage, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedClark, Herbert H.; Begun, Jeffrey S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Experiments
Peer reviewedThomas, Hugh B. G.; Huff, Francis J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Information Processing, Models
