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Wolfram, Walt; And Others – 1993
A sociolinguistic study of Ocracoke, an island community in North Carolina's Outer Banks, investigated the social dynamics of language change and variation. Data were gathered in interviews with 43 island residents aged 12-82, most of whose families have been on the island for several generations. Several major sociolinguistic issues were…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation
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Davis, Hayley – Language & Communication, 1997
A critic of Deborah Tannen's book "Gender and Discourse" responds to comments made about her critique, arguing that the book's analysis of the relationship of gender and discourse tends to seek, and perhaps force, explanations only in those terms. Another linguist's analysis of similar phenomena is found to be more rigorous. (MSE)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Burt, Susan Meredith – 1995
Sociopragmatic ambiguity (SPA) is claimed here to differ from other, better-known types of ambiguity, in terms of its locus, cause, and effect. SPA is characteristic of whole-discourse features rather than of lexical items or phrases. The ambiguity is one of social rather than ideational or semantic meaning. It is claimed that SPA arises through…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Kasper, Gabriele – 1995
A study examined pragmatic routine and indirection as regularly-used strategies for accomplishing linguistic action that, while conventional, can pose problems for non-native speakers. Two kinds of conventionalities are distinguished: conventionality of means (kinds of semantic structure that have acquired a standard illocutionary force, such as,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
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Wierzbicka, Anna – Language in Society, 1986
Direct links between Australian English and the Australian culture are drawn. The author proposes ways in which a linguistically precise and culturally revealing study of linguistic phenomena such as expressive derivation, illocutionary devices, and speech act verbs are related to Australian society, history, culture, and "national…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Cultural Influences, English, Foreign Countries
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Hansen, Anita Berit – Journal of French Language Studies, 1994
A study investigating the evolution in French of the unstressed "e" positioned between single consonants (e.g., "besoin") is presented. It is argued that stabilization of this pattern cannot be confirmed in the speech of educated Parisians but appears to be governed by sociolinguistic variables. Lexical conditioning is examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Diachronic Linguistics, French, Language Patterns
Okushi, Yoshiko – 1998
This study investigated how native Japanese speakers use honorifics in everyday social interaction. Honorifics are affixes, words, and formulaic phrases that follow linguistic and sociolinguistic rules and are believed to mark a speaker's politeness toward an addressee or another referenced person. The honorific system is incorporated into most…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Japanese, Language Patterns
Ide, Sachiko – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study used both a survey and observation to investigate the phenomenon of politer speech among Japanese women than among Japanese men. The survey of 256 men and 271 women, parents of college students at a college in Tokyo and representing a middle-class population, inquired about the respondents' personal use of polite forms of Japanese. It is…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Patterns
Coronel-Molina, Serafin M. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1998
A study analyzed the opening and closing sequences of 11 dyads of native Spanish-speakers in natural telephone conversations conducted in Spanish. The objective was to determine how closely Hispanic cultural patterns of conduct for telephone conversations follow the sequences outlined in previous research. It is concluded that Spanish…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Guespin, Louis – Langue Francaise, 1976
This article describes a study attempting to correlate language style in elementary school children with sociocultural factors. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, French, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Fitzgerald, Dale K. – 1970
This paper analyzes the prophetic speech of Ga spirit mediums in terms of its linguistic style and its socio-religious function. As used in the study, "prophetic speech" is understood to have two major characteristics: (1) glossolalic style, and (2) prophetic message content, and it is used by people believed to be possessed by spirits. Prophetic…
Descriptors: African Languages, Ga, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Hymes, Dell – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
Discusses the transitional unilateral code-switching observed in speakers of Hakka when speaking Cantonese. (CLK)
Descriptors: Cantonese, Code Switching (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
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Pressman, Jon F. – Language in Society, 1998
Analyzes the use of metapragmatic description in the ethnoclassification of language by native speakers on the Franco-Antillean island of Saint Barthelemy. A prevalent technique for metapragmatic description based on honorific pronouns that reflects the varied geolinguistic and generational attributes of the speakers is described. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Classification
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Fatigante, Marilena; Fasulo, Alessandra; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1998
A qualitative study analyzed the distribution of participation by young children (ages 3-5) in family dinnertime conversation, focusing on "backstage talk," sequences adjacent to those in which the child is involved and within his auditory range, so that the child-projected participation-role alternates between that of addressee and overhearer.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Family Environment, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication
Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak – Journal of Linguistic Studies, 1996
Analysis of the Korean verb "na-ka-ta" ("to get out, exit") focuses on why an expression such as "kyengkicang-ey na-ka-ta" ("someone goes out/in to the sports arena") is acceptable only in the context that the person's entering the arena is for the purpose of a contest, while it becomes semantically…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Definitions, Foreign Countries
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