Gender, Sexuality, And Shifting Styles: Knowledge Production and Codifying Language Use in Style Guides [PDF]
Recent sociopolitical movements concerning gender identity have shifted conversations about language use and meaning. Style guides reflect this shift, updating and expanding sections on inclusive language in newer editions, and codifying written ...
Meg Robertson, Riki Thompson
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Shift in Style with the Shift of Gender: Exploring Gender Based Style Differences in ESL Writing. [PDF]
The present study examines the difference in ESL academic writing of boys' and girls' in their written assignments. It aims at exploring differences in ESL writing based on the variable of gender. The data site for this study was a Diploma class at the Department of English FC, NUML Islamabad, where it was collected from 24 participants, i.e., 12 boys ...
Shazia Ayyaz+2 more
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Shifts in Style and Perspective in Zsigmond Kemény'sThe Fanatics [PDF]
In this article the author discusses how changes in style in Zsigmond Kemeny's novel The Fanatics can be construed as shifts in perspective from that of the narrator to that of a character in the novel. By suggesting a distance between the narrator and the narration, these shifts in style render it impossible to consolidate the text as the work of a ...
Thomas Cooper
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Children’s Multilectal Repertoires: Diglossic Style-Shifting by Palestinian Children and Adolescents in Syria [PDF]
Arabic diglossia, whereby Standard Arabic (SA) exists alongside numerous vernaculars, often leads to diglossic style-shifting, based on context or topic changes and marked in the vernacular by shifting to standard linguistic features.
Ourooba Shetewi+2 more
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This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects.
Mario Magued Mina, Jasmina Kerla
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Light Logics and the Call-by-Value Lambda Calculus [PDF]
The so-called light logics have been introduced as logical systems enjoying quite remarkable normalization properties. Designing a type assignment system for pure lambda calculus from these logics, however, is problematic.
Paolo Coppola+2 more
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Theorizing communicative styles on social media: an etymological shift [PDF]
Abstract Distinct polarities of gender stereotypes ascertain that communicative styles demonstrated by men and women are fundamentally disparate. Numerous researches have established varying communicative styles and methods involved in interpersonal communication, predominantly in the analysis of conversational styles as well as ...
Chandra Reka Ramachandiran+1 more
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Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway [PDF]
This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order ...
Kamil Malarski+4 more
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Seeking Systematicity in Variation: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the “Variety” Concept [PDF]
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen+1 more
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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice” [PDF]
This article demonstrates evidence of context-related style-shifting on YouTube. This was achieved by comparing the vowels of vlogger Phil Lester in multiple contexts (a solo vlog, collaborative vlog, gaming video, and live video).
Sarah Lee
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