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Pennington, Martha C.; Lau, Lawrence; Sachdev, Itesh – Language Learning Journal, 2011
This comparative study, conducted in multicultural London, investigates the occurrence in interviews with a researcher and in constructed same-sex peer conversations of five linguistic features characteristic of London English in the speech of two groups of British-born adolescents: ethnic Bangladeshis and ethnic Chinese of Cantonese heritage. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistics, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
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Black, Steven D.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1983
Compares discourse in several different media and finds that strict sequentiality is not a universal feature of discourse. Concludes that discourse in nonreal time media, such as electronic message systems, has multiple threads. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language)
Evans, Adeline L.; King, Thomas R. – 1981
A study investigated the speaking styles of black college students to determine whether selected stylistic features of speeches of students at a predominantly black university were different from those of black college students at a predominantly white university. Audiotapes were made of 25 students at the predominantly black university and 21…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Students, Communication Research