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Peer reviewedBrennan, Susan E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines what linguistic devices speakers use to make an entity salient in a discourse and how they re-refer to discourse entities moving in and out of focus. Speakers' center of attention was manipulated via a videotaped basketball game. Speakers referred to prominent entities as subjects; when they referred to them as objects, they repeated the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
