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Audience design

Audience design is a sociolinguistic model formulated by Herb Clark and Gregory Murphy in 1982 and later elaborated by Allan Bell in 1984 which proposes that linguistic style-shifting occurs primarily in response to a speaker's audience. According to this model, speakers adjust their speech primarily towards that of their audience in order to express…

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Harvey SacksWilliam Labov
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Allan Bell's research

Communication accommodation theoryNew ZealandNational RadioSociolinguistic variables
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Referee design

Speech communityAAVE
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Overview

Herb ClarkAllan BellStyle-shifting
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Referee design

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Audience design

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related to Referee design · 18
Audience design → AAVE, African-American, American High School, At, Bell, European, For, Foxy, Foxy Boston, Foxy's, In, Interpreting, McNair-Knox, Rickford, Standard American English, This, Thus, Whilst
related to Allan Bell's research · 8
Audience design → Bell, Bell's, Giles, He, National Radio, New Zealand, One, The
related to Audience types · 3
Audience design → Addressee, Bell, The
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Audience design → sociolinguistic model formulated by Herb Clark and Gregory Murphy in 1982 and later elaborated by Allan Bell in 1984 which proposes that linguistic style-shifting occurs primari…

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speech audience design speaker bell style-shifting radio sociolinguistic model types allan style foxy speakers primarily bell's research referee listeners styles

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