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Dirksen, Carolyn Rowland – 1978
Sociolinguists have recently demonstrated the value of directives in indicating the relationship between status and linguistic form. The purpose of the instrument developed for this study was to quantify the coerciveness of directives on the basis of the theoretical approaches in the literature to objectify the comparison of directive forms.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Females, Interaction Process Analysis
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Watson, Kittie W.; Ragsdale, J. Donald – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1981
Investigated the effects of question tense (past, present, future, and conditional) on intentionally deceptive and truthful responses to questions asked during employment interviews. Identified, through computer analysis, six variables which differentiated between truthful and deceptive messages and 19 variables which identified between the four…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Computer Programs, Discourse Analysis