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Joshua Fishman proposes a domain-specific code-switching model [68] (later refined by Blom and Gumperz) [69] wherein bilingual speakers choose which code to speak depending on where they are and what they are discussing. For example, a child who is a bilingual Spanish-English speaker might speak Spanish at home and English in class, but Spanish ...
[2] [3] These strategies, with the exception of switching languages, are also used by native speakers. [ 2 ] The term communication strategy was introduced by Selinker in 1972, [ 4 ] and the first systematic analysis of communication strategies was made by Varadi in 1973.
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[1] This means when speakers change their communication style, listeners are interpreting such alterations. For example, when the speaker adjusts their accent to match the listener's, the recipient may interpret this positively, perceiving it as the speaker trying to fit in, or negatively—questioning whether they are mocking them.
In sociolinguistics, hypercorrection is the nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription.A speaker or writer who produces a hypercorrection generally believes through a misunderstanding of such rules that the form or phrase they use is more "correct", standard, or otherwise preferable, often combined with a desire to ...
A paraphrase can be introduced with verbum dicendi—a declaratory expression to signal the transition to the paraphrase. For example, in "The author states 'The signal was red,' that is, the train was not allowed to proceed," the that is signals the paraphrase that follows. A paraphrase does not need to accompany a direct quotation. [20]
Hall demonstrates that if a viewer of a newscast on such topics decoded the message "in terms of the reference code in which it has been encoded" that the viewer would be "operating inside the dominant code" [7] Thus, the dominant code involves taking the connotative meaning of a message in the exact way a sender intended a message to be ...
In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. [1] In the case of oral languages, it is generally, but not always, bounded by silence. Utterances do not exist in written language; only their representations do.