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Speech Style (speech + style)
Selected AbstractsMaternal speech style with prelinguistic twin infantsINFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2003Sue Butler Abstract The mother,infant communicative speech of a group of mothers of 4-month-old first-born twin infants was compared to the speech of a group of mothers of first-born singleton infants. Maternal groups were matched on age, education level, mother,infant attachment status and infant gender, and maternal depression was assessed as a control variable. Maternal speech was coded for focus, content, complexity and syntax of mothers' utterances. The findings of earlier studies with toddler age twins, that maternal speech style was more directive and less infant-focused, were replicated in this prelinguistic period of infancy. Compared to mothers of singletons, mothers of twins used less infant-focused speech, were less responsive to their infants' cues, and attributed less agency to their infants. Mothers of twins also used fewer questions and requests but did not differ from mothers of singletons in their use of negatives and imperatives. These early differences in the language learning environments of twin and singleton infants may be due to the reduced opportunities that mothers of twins have to establish dyadic communicative routines with their infants and to familiarize themselves with their infants as interactive partners, and may have implications for the early language development of twins. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Constructing "otherness": ideologies and differentiating speech styleINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Issue 2 2007Kate T. Anderson First page of article [source] Social relationships and shifting languages in Northern Thailand1JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 3 2010Kathryn M. Howard This paper explores how speakers' understandings of the conduct of social relationships mediate changing and socially distinctive syncretic language practices in a Northern Thai community. Although a shift away from vernacular (Kam Muang) speech styles to Standard Thai was emblematically tied to young and urban speakers in nostalgic discourses, syncretic speech styles and metalinguistic discourses also reflected local and socially positioned understandings of institutional roles and social relationships. I argue that scholars of language change and shift should foreground the mediating role of social relationships in speakers' uses and understandings of their communicative repertoires across multiple timescales. [source] Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting?JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 3 2002Adverbs, social class An earlier study, based on interviews with a socially stratified sample showed a difference in the use of adverbs, with the middle,class speakers using derived adverbs in ,ly more than twice as frequently as the working,class speakers. An examination of interactions in peer,group same,sex dyads shows a similar socially stratified pattern in both adults and adolescents. There are similar differences in the use of some other adverbs and certain adjectives. The consistency of the results suggests that there is a stable difference in speech styles between the two social classes and that this difference reflects a different attitude on the part of the speakers to their audience. [source] | ||||||||||