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The Distress in Not Stressing and Destressing Stress in English: Using Wordplay to Boost Awareness, Intelligibility, and Communicative Competence
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Schaefer, Vance; Darcy, Isabelle; Abe, Linda – TESOL Journal, 2019
Stress is an integral part of conveying meaning in English at not only the level of the word but also the phrase and rhetoric where it is exploited in English in literature, humor, advertising, and more. Simultaneously, stress marks language variation in regional, generational, and ethnic dialects. Thus, stress bears a great functional load and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Suprasegmentals, Language Variation, Dialects