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Peer reviewedMulac, Anthony; Lundell, Torborg Louisa – Language and Speech, 1982
Reports a study in which university students and older nonstudents rated video transcripts of beginning public speaking students' first in-class speech for socio-intellectual status, aesthetic quality, and dynamism. On the basis of language, female speakers were rated higher on socio-intellectual status and aesthetic quality; males scored higher…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Language Research, Language Styles
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
Peer reviewedDePaulo, Bella M.; Coleman, Lerita M. – Language and Speech, 1981
Describes an experiment designed to investigate the characteristics of speech addressed to children and to determine if they are distinctive enough to be perceived as a special register. Explains how evidence for specialness was found in the judgments of observers exposed to messages addressed to different categories of listeners, including…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, High School Students, Interpersonal Relationship
