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2. Social Stories - Wikipedia

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   Social stories model appropriate social interaction by describing a situation with relevant social cues, other's perspectives, and a suggested appropriate response. About one half of the time, the stories are used to acknowledge and praise successful completion of an accomplishment. [6] [7] [8] Social stories are considered a type of social ...

3. Phatic expression - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, a phatic expression (English: / ˈ f æ t ɪ k /, FAT-ik) is a communication which primarily serves to establish or maintain social relationships.In other words, phatic expressions have mostly socio-pragmatic rather than semantic functions.

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5. Politeness theory - Wikipedia

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   Positive face refers to one's self-esteem, while negative face refers to one's freedom to act. [1] [18] These two aspects of face are the basic wants in any social interaction; during any social interaction, cooperation is needed amongst the participants to maintain each other's face. [1]

6. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

7. Proxemics - Wikipedia

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   Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction. [1] Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study of nonverbal communication, including haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).

8. Grammar - Wikipedia

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   Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation in speech, particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker (for example, why some speakers say "I didn't do nothing", some say "I didn't do anything", and some say one or the other depending on social context). The formal study of grammar is an important part ...

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   By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was ...