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  2. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    The study of how language influences thought, and vice-versa, has a long history in a variety of fields. There are two bodies of thought forming around this debate. One body of thought stems from linguistics and is known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.

  3. Sociology of language - Wikipedia

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    [5] The basic idea is that language reflects, among several other things, attitudes that speakers want to exchange or that just get reflected through language use. These attitudes of the speakers are the sociologist's information. Sociology of language seeks to understand the way that social dynamics are affected by individual and group ...

  4. Language attitudes - Wikipedia

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    Language attitudes, like other social constructs, are subject to change by social influences, as well as by the individual's motivation to maintain cognitive consistency when cognitive dissonance occurs. [8] It has been shown that individual language attitudes evolve with time, especially in situations of language contact. [9]

  5. Nonverbal influence - Wikipedia

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    Nonverbal influence is the act of affecting or inspiring change in others' behaviors and attitudes through tone of voice or body language and other nonverbal cues like facial expression. This act of getting others to embrace or resist new attitudes can be achieved with or without the use of spoken language. [ 1 ]

  6. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    Labeling theory – Labeling people changes their behavior; Language and thought – Study of how language influences thought; Language planning – Deliberate effort to influence languages or their varieties within a speech community; Linguistic anthropology – Study of how language influences social life

  7. Behavioral communication - Wikipedia

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    Communicative behaviors are psychological constructs that influence individual differences in expressing feelings, needs, and thoughts as a substitute for more direct and open communication. [1] More specifically, communicative behaviors refer to people's tendency to express themselves using indirect messages. [ 2 ]

  8. High-context and low-context cultures - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, many features of cultural behavior in high-context cultures, such as individual roles and expectations, do not need much detailed or thought-out explanation. According to Watson, "the influence of cultural variables interplays with other key factors – for example, social identities, those of age, gender, social class, and ...

  9. Affiliative conflict theory - Wikipedia

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    As a consequence, a change may occur in one behavioral dimension, although there would be little relative change in the equilibrium as a whole" (Coutts, pg. 5.) [2] Affiliative Conflict Theory thus proposes that there are two separate, but related; propositions that involve maintaining the balance of the intimacy equilibrium point.

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