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Jucks, Regina; Becker, Bettina-Maria; Bromme, Rainer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Overlaps with one's interlocutor in the choice of words are called lexical entrainment. This article looks at accounts for these overlaps in word use. The question addressed is the extent to which the word use of the addressee, as opposed to available words from other sources, has a special impact on experts' choice of words. A laboratory…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Experiments, Expertise, Health Education
Dimakos, Ioannis C.; Porpodas, Constantine D. – 1993
The production of non-narrative information (descriptive versus expository) across written and oral modes was examined for second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade Greek elementary school students. Written and oral protocols were taken from a total of 240 students at each of 3 grades and evaluated according to: (1) the size of the text produced, measured…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Expository Writing