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Audience design
About: Audience design is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 233 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11555 citations.
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TL;DR: The basic principle of language style is that an individual speaker does not always talk in the same way on all occasions as discussed by the authors, which is one of the most challenging aspects of sociolinguistic variation.
Abstract: Language style is one of the most challenging aspects of sociolinguistic variation. The basic principle of language style is that an individual speaker does not always talk in the same way on all occasions. Style means that speakers have alternatives or choices — a ‘that way’ which could have been chosen instead of a ‘this way’. Speakers talk in different ways in different situations, and these different ways of speaking can carry different social meanings.
2,502 citations
TL;DR: A communication task in which pairs of people conversed about arranging complex figures is described and how the proposed model accounts for many features of the references they produced is shown.
2,287 citations
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14 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Rickford and Eckert as mentioned in this paper discuss style shifting in the context of a non-autonomous sociolinguistic approach to the problem of language variation, and re-examine the connection between style and psycholinguistics.
Abstract: Introduction John R. Rickford and Penelope Eckert Part I. Anthropological Approaches: 1. 'Style' as distinctiveness: the culture and ideology of linguistic differentiation Judith T. Irvine 2. Variety, style-shifting, and ideology Susan Ervin-Tripp 3. The ethnography of genre in a Mexican market: form, function, variation Richard Bauman 4. The question of genre Ronald Macaulay Part II. Attention Paid to Speech: 5. The anatomy of style shifting William Labov 6. A dissection of style shifting John Baugh 7. Style and social meaning Penelope Eckert 8. Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style Elizabeth Closs Traugott Part III. Audience Design and Self-Identification: 9. Back in style: reworking audience design Allan Bell 10. Primitives of a system for 'style' and 'register' Malcah Yaegar-Dror 11. Language, situation and the relational self: theorising dialect-style in sociolinguistics Nikolas Coupland 12. Couplandia and beyond Howard Giles 13. Style and stylizing from the perspective of a non-autonomous sociolinguistics John R. Rickford Part IV. Functionally Motivated Situational Variation: 14. Register variation and social dialect variation: re-examining the connection Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber 15. Conversation, spoken language and social identity Lesley Milroy 16. Style and the psycholinguistics of sociolinguistics: the logical problem of language variation Dennis R. Preston.
1,233 citations
TL;DR: The results suggest that speakers do not engage in audience design in the initial planning of utterances; instead, they monitor those plans for violations of common ground.
658 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the speaker designs each utterance for specific listeners, and they, in turn, make essential use of this fact in understanding that utterance, and conclude that audience design must play a central role in any adequate theory of understanding.
Abstract: We argue that the speaker designs each utterance for specific listeners, and they, in turn, make essential use of this fact in understanding that utterance. We call this property of utterances audience design. Often listeners can come to a unique interpretation for an utterance only if they assume that the speaker designed it just so that they could come to that interpretation uniquely. We illustrate reasoning from audience design in the understanding of definite reference, anaphora, and word meaning, and we offer evidence that listeners actually reason this way. We conclude that audience design must play a central role in any adequate theory of understanding.
440 citations
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| 2021 | 15 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2016 | 11 |