The effects of social status and social dialect on listener responses |
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Authors: | Brenda Bochner Arthur P Bochner |
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Institution: | Assistant Professor of Communication , Cleveland State University |
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Abstract: | The findings of this experimental study indicate that the response to the dialect speech of another is not unidimensional and that dialect is more likely a determinant of speaker ethos for middle social status persons than for high or low social status persons. |
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