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Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna; Molek-Winiarska, Dorota – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
This study draws from personality psychology and linguistics of written communication to explore the characteristics of self-selected well-written email communications (N=273) solicited from Polish managers who organized and supervised the (remote) work of their units during the COVID-19 period. The focus is on the writing of managers with…
Descriptors: Administrators, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis
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Banatao, Mary Ann B.; Malenab-Temporal, Conchita – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Students' preferences are being shaped by what they view in advertisements. Hence, this study examined the occurrence of code-switching in Philippine TV advertisements. Particularly, it analyzed syntactic patterns of code-switching, pragmatic/discourse functions and motivations present in the code-switched ads aired from the country's giant TV…
Descriptors: Television, Advertising, Code Switching (Language), Syntax
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Howell, Peter; Davis, Stephen; Williams, Roberta – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: A study was conducted that examined factors that lead children who stutter at around age 8 years to persist in the disorder when they reach age 12 years. Method: Seventy-six children were verified to be stuttering at initial assessment. When they reached 12 years of age, they were classified as persistent or recovered. A range of measures…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Stuttering, Children, Severity (of Disability)
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Quina, Kathryn; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1987
Described sentence pairs representing Lakoff's "women's language" and corresponding "masculine" styles to examine gender stereotyping as a function of linguistic pattern usage. College students evaluated hypothetical male, female, or sex-unknown speakers on 31 bipolar adjective scales. Participants rated the nonfeminine linguistic style…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Haase, Richard F. – 1971
Thirty-six subjects were administered the 16PF and participated in a brief, unstructured interview. Paralinguistic behavior (fluency, duration and speech rate) were scored from tapes of the interviews and correlated to personality characteristics. Four significant relationships emerged revealing that fluency is related to adventurousness; duration…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Patterns
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Chen, Aoju; Gussenhoven, Carlos; Rietveld, Toni – Language and Speech, 2004
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Listening, Paralinguistics, Semantics
Ray, George B. – 1980
A study sought to determine what relationships existed between speech rate, speech pitch variation, speech loudness, and the personality assessments made by listeners. The subjects, 214 undergraduate speech communication students, listened to one of eight tape recordings made by a male speaker to represent all the combinations of the three…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Schurr, Sandra L. – 1995
This handbook details 28 specific learning strategies for diverse groups of middle school students, each cast as a prescription applicable for students whose diagnosis reveals certain "conditions" such as particular learning styles or high or low reading skills. Reproducible pages accompany most of the strategies. Following are the activities: (1)…
Descriptors: Catalogs, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Class Activities