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Mark My Words! Linguistic Style Accommodation in Social Media

open access: yes, 2011
The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another's communicative behavior: they coordinate in a variety of dimensions including choice of ...
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian   +2 more
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Socio-stylistic aspects of linguistic variation: schooling and monitoring effects

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2015
Alveolar stops following palatal glide in Brazilian Portuguese are investigated, with focus on constraints for the choice between occlusive or affricate variants. Data was collected in the community of practice of Praesidium Mãe da Divina Graça da Legião
Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag
doaj   +1 more source

English Pauper Letters in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond

open access: yesLinguistica, 2023
This article explores a new subtype of vernacular correspondence emerging in the early eighteenth century, the pauper letter, providing a textual classification of this new text type and an account of its variability and evolution into the nineteenth ...
Anne-Christine Gardner
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Political language variation: stylistic based study

open access: yesLinguistics and Culture Review, 2021
This study aimed at finding out the figures of speech used by the government in the political language variation and the purposes to which they serve. On the basis of the data analysis, it was found that there are sixteen types of figures of speech contained in the political language variation, for example, euphemism, repetition, parallelism ...
openaire   +2 more sources

VarGes: Improving variation in co-speech 3D gesture generation via StyleCLIPS

open access: yesComputational Visual Media
Generating expressive and diverse human gestures from audio is crucial in fields like human–computer interaction, virtual reality, and animation.
Ming Meng   +6 more
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Diachronic and/or synchronic variation? The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A majority of the early research in Second Language Acquisition focused on diachronic variation in the learners’ interlanguage (IL), that is, differences in the IL linked to a supposed increase in knowledge between two points in time (cf.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Non-Conditioned, Unconscious Intra-Individual Variation

open access: yesLanguages
Far from the uniformity of language and the ideal speaker, it is assumed that language varies even within the same speaker, and that such variation is intrinsic to this speaker.
Gotzon Aurrekoetxea
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Wariantywność stylu tekstu w perspektywie edukacyjnej

open access: yesStylistyka, 2020
The article presents the results of an educational diagnosis. The study it describes analyses the style of invitations prepared by the Polish middle school pupils and its significant variation despite the fact that the subjects did identical tasks in ...
Jolanta Nocoń
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Conventions and mutual expectations — understanding sources for web genres [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Genres can be understood in many different ways. They are often perceived as a primarily sociological construction, or, alternatively, as a stylostatistically observable objective characteristic of texts.
Karlgren, Jussi
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Facilitating pragmatic skills through role-play in learners with language learning disability

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Role-based learning involves the process whereby learners acquire skills, knowledge and understanding through the assumption of roles within real-life settings. Role-play holds potential as an effective learning strategy for children; however,
Fareeaa Abdoola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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