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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
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Holmes, Michael E. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1995
Investigates place references in synchronous computer-mediated conversation, revealing two uses of place deixis: one for the user's physical location and one for "location" in the virtual space of the computer network. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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Ausmus, William A. – Communication Monographs, 1998
Examines and describes the pragmatic uses of the "nuclear winter" metaphor in the original "Science" article and its subsequent use in "Foreign Affairs." Analyzes conditions of the metaphor's birth in the former and its development and use as a conventional metaphor in the latter. Shows that the metaphor became a…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Metaphors
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Jefferson, Gail – Language in Society, 1985
Discusses glosses, that is, formulations which, on their occurrence, are adequate but which turn out to have been incomplete, ambiguous and perhaps misleading. Examines the ways in which a coparticipant's activities may result in a speaker either maintaining or revealing the gloss. (SED)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Usage
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Clark, Herbert H.; Carlson, Thomas B. – Language, 1982
A report of an investigation of conversations involving more than two persons. Two types of illocutionary acts are accounted for: the traditional kind directed at the addressee(s) and another, called an informative, addressed to all participants. Evidence is presented that every illocutionary act is performed by means of an informative. (AMH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Usage
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Ko, Kwang-Kyu – Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, 1996
Compares one form of synchronous computer-mediated communication, Daedalus InterChange, with analogous spoken and written corpora. Finds that the InterChange discourse mode is not merely intermediate between speaking and writing; rather the electronic medium uniquely fosters some behaviors and inhibits others, in support of the view that physical…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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Mitra, Ananda – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1997
Examines a representative World Wide Web page about India to determine ways in which it addresses the "ingroup" of diasporic Indians and "outgroup" visitors to the site. Identifies several textual strategies including modes of formatting, use of language, specific selection of images and multimedia elements, and specific links…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Information Sources
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Voiskounsky, Alexander E. – Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1997
Analyzes specifics of computer-mediated communication. Finds features and attributes inherent in oral and written forms of speech in dialogs, monologs, and polylogs (telelogs). Finds a particular kind of "pidginized network English" being formed by "netters" for whom English is not their native language. (RS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
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Perez-Sabater, Carmen; Pena-Martinez, Gemma; Turney, Ed; Montero-Fleta, Begona – Written Communication, 2008
Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Computer Mediated Communication, French, Television
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Kauffman, Charles – Communication Monographs, 1989
Traces the theoretical significance of using names as titles for situations, and applies this analysis to the United States' intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) programs. Argues that the names given to ICBMs preserve their utility as weapons by linking them to the myths of the nineteenth-century western frontier. (MM)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Nuclear Warfare
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Fiedler, Klaus; And Others – Human Communication Research, 1993
Presents a language approach to outgroup homogeneity and discrimination between gender groups. Finds outgroup discrimination was confined to female respondents; outgroup discrimination resulted more from repetition of biased statements than from differential abstraction; and discrimination was strongest for topics for which the most distinctive…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Sherblom, John; Reinsch, N. L., Jr. – 1979
To test whether verbal choices in a persuasive setting would show less diversity and more qualification than those in a nonpersuasive setting, a study involving 24 college students was undertaken. The subjects were divided into five groups and each group was asked to role play two situations: one calling for the subjects merely to be…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Language Styles
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Ragan, Sandra L.; Hopper, Robert – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1981
Locates and analyzes the following verbal alignment devices in job interview talks: accounts, formulations, meta-talks, and qualifiers. Results reveal--among other important implications for the job interview process--that interviewees, by assuming a timid, powerless role, may be yielding in a way that jeopardizes their being hired or future job…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Employment Interviews
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And Others; Gorcyca, Diane Atkinson – Communication Quarterly, 1979
Language samples of college- and middle-aged respondents were analyzed to determine if the language use of college students is appropriate for generalizations to other elements of the population. (PD)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
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Paolillo, John C. – Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, 1996
Examines factors influencing language choice on the newsgroup soc.culture.punjab, a forum discussing the culture of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Finds that Punjabi is used only with interlocutors who are Punjabi community members. Accounts for limited usage in terms of intergenerational language shift, cultural ambivalence among…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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