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ERIC Number: EJ539348
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0802-6106
Effects of Social Power on Language Use Across Speech Communities.
Kamisli, Sibel; Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, v6 n2 p199-222 1996
Discusses the discourse strategies that status-unequal interlocutors use in expressing disagreement. Reveals semantic formulas as influenced by the role relationships and compares and contrasts the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish and American English for the same speech event in order to obtain a cross-culture perspective. (26 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Native Speakers, North American English, Persuasive Discourse, Power Structure, Role Perception, Semantics, Socioeconomic Status, Speech Communication, Turkish
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Politeness; Turkey