Language style as audience design

Bell, A. (1984). Language style as audience design. Language in Society, 13(2), 145-204.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1984

Volume

13

Issue

2

Pages

145-204

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/s004740450001037xmatched

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Register (Style) Shifting
  • ) — the specific lexical, syntactic, or phonological element being adjusted; (2) the contextual trigger (

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Bell's abstract supports style shifts as responses to audience and situation, but does not set out a four-component framework of feature, trigger and so on.

    “Style is essentially speakers' response to their audience.”

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