DISCOURSE MARKER LIKE IN REAL TIME: CHARACTERIZING THE TIME-COURSE OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC IMPRESSION FORMATION
Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-contai...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:ddasp:90/2/154 2023-05-15T16:01:15+02:00 DISCOURSE MARKER LIKE IN REAL TIME: CHARACTERIZING THE TIME-COURSE OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC IMPRESSION FORMATION Hesson, Ashley Shellgren, Madeline 2015-01-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/90/2/154 https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130313 en eng Duke University Press http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/90/2/154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130313 Copyright (C) 2015, American Dialect Society Articles TEXT 2015 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130313 2016-11-16T17:29:39Z Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-containing speech is judged as friendlier and less intelligent than controls. Though informative, such studies cannot speak to the magnitude and/or stability of DML-based impressions nor to the potential interactions between said effects and individual processing styles. The current study continuously measures real-time listener evaluations of speech samples differing only by a single use of DML using a dynamic motion-capture interface. It also integrates a measure of participants' social interaction preferences and cognitive flexibility, thus assessing the influence of individual differences on participants' moment-by-moment impression formation. Our results indicate that DML has an initial negative effect on both <scp>friendliness</scp> and <scp>intelligence</scp> ratings. While the “unfriendly” perception is relatively transient, the “unintelligent” evaluation persists and intensifies over time. Individuals with relatively high levels of social aptitude and/or cognitive flexibility are largely responsible for these trends. Collectively, these results offer a preliminary characterization of the sociocognitive interplay between individual, interpersonal, and societal influences on attitude formation. Text DML HighWire Press (Stanford University) American Speech 90 2 154 186 |
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Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-containing speech is judged as friendlier and less intelligent than controls. Though informative, such studies cannot speak to the magnitude and/or stability of DML-based impressions nor to the potential interactions between said effects and individual processing styles. The current study continuously measures real-time listener evaluations of speech samples differing only by a single use of DML using a dynamic motion-capture interface. It also integrates a measure of participants' social interaction preferences and cognitive flexibility, thus assessing the influence of individual differences on participants' moment-by-moment impression formation. Our results indicate that DML has an initial negative effect on both <scp>friendliness</scp> and <scp>intelligence</scp> ratings. While the “unfriendly” perception is relatively transient, the “unintelligent” evaluation persists and intensifies over time. Individuals with relatively high levels of social aptitude and/or cognitive flexibility are largely responsible for these trends. Collectively, these results offer a preliminary characterization of the sociocognitive interplay between individual, interpersonal, and societal influences on attitude formation. |
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DISCOURSE MARKER LIKE IN REAL TIME: CHARACTERIZING THE TIME-COURSE OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC IMPRESSION FORMATION |
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