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Dalola, Amanda; Bullock, Barbara E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as…
Descriptors: French, Vowels, Language Usage, Language Variation
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This study analyzes stylistic variation among first-, second-, and third-year instructed learners of French engaged in synchronous French-language computer-mediated communication (CMC) and compares the results with data from nonlearner discourse in a public, noneducational synchronous CMC environment. We focus specifically on variability in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Norms, Correlation
Donahue, Thomas S. – 1990
It is proposed that middle- and upper-middle-class slang used among white young people in modern America shows age-related themes. For youngsters between the ages of eight and early adolescence, the major theme in slang use is to establish in-group and out-group membership, with standards of judgment based on clothes, manners, and physical appeal.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Language Role, Language Styles
Beebe, Leslie M. – 1985
An examination of the social psychological basis of style shifting suggests that, contrary to Labovian theory, many style shifts are not a function of shifts in attention to speech and that there are other more explanatory ways of analyzing style shifts. Some reasons for this view are: (1) attention to speech is sometimes negatively correlated…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Interlanguage, Language Research, Language Styles
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Koike, Dale A. – Hispania, 1986
Reports a study of the correlation of linguistic variation with the variables of gender and context specificity in Brazilian Portuguese. The study focused on differences found in the expression of a particular directive by adult middle-class male and female speakers of the Carioca dialect of Rio de Janeiro. (SED)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
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Ohmann, Richard – College English, 1982
Compares the language usage of a working-class couple and a small-town mayor. Uses a Marxian rhetorical perspective to connect language styles and class distinctions. Considers the educational implications of this connection. (RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Language Research, Language Styles
Liberman, Kenneth – 1982
Aboriginal discourse in central Australia is characterized by a refusal to impose a way of thinking on others, and correct discourse either carries a consensus or is abandoned. In addition, participants avoid being exposed personally in public settings, and good interactional style forbids speakers from forcing themselves on fellow participants in…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Comparative Analysis, Courts, Discourse Analysis
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Smith, Anne-Marie – World Englishes, 1988
Reviews opinions of senior Papua New Guinea (PNG) educators on the place of English in the country, and contrasts some characteristics of PNG English with standard English. It is concluded that PNG English is recognizable as a variety of English in its own right. A reference list of 28 citations is included. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Akinnaso, F. Niyi – Language and Speech, 1985
Examines the nature of the convergent relationship between formal spoken and written discourse by focusing on three issues: (1) spoken vs. written modes; (2) formal vs. informal discourse; and (3) the relationship between oral ritual communication and written language and between ritual/written communication and everyday colloquial language. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Indigenous Populations, Language Research
Betancourt, Francisco – 1986
As part of a larger sociolinguistic study investigating the attitudes of Puerto Ricans on the island toward their own vernacular speech, the present research focused on the subjective reactions of 104 public high school teachers and students to spoken speech styles. The subjects' task was to: listen to a prerecorded tape, rate the voices on the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Attitudes, Language Styles
Beebe, Leslie M. – 1983
Three questions in the application of native-language sociolinguistic theories to second language contexts are addressed: (1) Is transfer always a psycholinguistic process of interlingual overgeneralization? (2) Does attention to speech underlie all style shifting? (3) Is H. Giles' Speech Accommodation Theory adequate to explain all purposeful…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Lattey, Elsa – 1981
Foreigner talk (FT) has been characterized as speech "used by speakers of a language to outsiders who are felt to have limited command of a language or no knowledge of it," or "the variety of language that is regarded by a speech community as primarily appropriate for addressing foreigners." A study was carried out in Germany…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Nationals, German
Irvine, Judith T. – 1978
This paper considers a distinction frequently used in sociolinguistics and ethnography of speaking to describe speech events: their formality or informality. Three principle meanings of "formality" found in the literature concern whether the formality relates to properties of a communicative code, properties of the social setting in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Chiu, Rosaline K. – 1972
The study of registers in language is the study of language as it varies according to "use." The situation in which language is used imposes certain constraints on the structure and lexical ingredients of the language. In this report, the author investigates the use of verbs in two different registers in English. The frequency of verbs in both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
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Hollos, Marida; Beeman, William – Language in Society, 1978
Attempts to demonstrate that there is a "cultural communicative style" operating in the issuance of directives that is distinct for different cultures. Emphasis is placed on investigation of children's strategies in their total communicative behavior, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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