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Peer reviewedJay, Timothy B. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines how one interprets and reacts to dirty-word descriptors. Subjects judged how much they would like a fictitious person described with dirty and non-dirty adjective pairs. Liking was influenced by: (1) semantic interpretation, (2) intrinsicalness of the adjective for the person described, and (3) contextual relations between speaker and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Usage, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedLevin, Harry; And Others – Language and Speech, 1981
Tests the hypothesis that Latinate words are preferred to Anglo-Saxon words in formal instructions or tasks that vary in formality. Three experiments were done, each implementing varying degrees of formality. Situations that call out Latinate words must be unequivocally formal. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Etymology, Language Styles, Latin, Literary Devices
