Two studies of the effects of linguistic diversity upon judgments of communicator attributes and message effectiveness

Bradac, James J.; Konsky, Catherine; Davies, Robert

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“…We hypothesised that context has an additive effect on listeners' judgments with greater denigration of speakers in employment interview than in conversational situations. Our failure to replicate findings by Bradac et al (1976) and Street & Brady (1982) can possibly be explained by two reasons. First, the power of the statistical tests was only moderate and thus there is the possibility of a Type-II error, especially since the context effects were in the predicted directions.…”

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The Influence of Speech Rate Stereotypes and Rate Similarity or Listeners' Evaluations of Speakers

Street

Brady

Putman

1983

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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In this study, the effects of speaker speech rate level, the degree of similarity between listener and speaker rates, and context on listeners' evaluative judgments of speakers were examined. After their own speech rates were assessed, subjects listened to passages of a male speaker, using a fast, moderate or slow speech rate. Also, subjects were told the passages were excerpts from either an informal conversation or an employment interview. After listening to the speech sample, subjects evaluated the speaker on competence and social attractiveness measures. Results indicated that listeners found a speaker with moderate to relative faster rates (actual and perceived) more competent and socially attractive than a speaker with slower rates. Listeners also preferred speakers with rates similar to or marginally faster than their own. The results regarding context were equivocal. Neither main nor interaction effects involving context emerged on either the competence or social attractiveness measures.However, on separate rate acceptability and speech rate perception measures, listeners found slower rates more acceptable and were more aware of the slow and fast rate extremes in the employment interview than in the conversation setting.

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“…Bradac, Konsky & Davies (1976) proposed that interaction context has an additive effect on listeners' evaluative reactions to speech behaviour. In that study, receivers judged messages more favourably in an informal setting than in a formal setting regardless of amount of lexical diversity in the message.…”

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The Influence of Speech Rate Stereotypes and Rate Similarity or Listeners' Evaluations of Speakers

Street

Brady

Putman

1983

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…and by variations in vocal presentation from one message version to another (Bradac, Konsky, & Davies, 1976;Bradac & Mulac, 1984a;Mulac, 1976;O'Barr, 1982). In other words, the internal validity of transcribed message experiments is potentially relatively high (Bradac, 1983;Cook & Campbell, 1979).…”

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Placement and frequency of powerless talk and impression formation

Johnson

Vinson

1990

Communication Quarterly

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“…and by variations in vocal presentation from one message version to another (Bradac, Konsky, & Davies, 1976;Bradac & Mulac, 1984b;OBarr, 1982). In other words, the internal validity of transcribed message expcriments is potentially relatively high (Bradac, 1983: Cook & Campbell, 1979.…”

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The Relationship Between the Use of Hesitations and/or Hedges and Lecture Listening: The Role of Perceived Importance as a Mediating Variable

Vinson¹,

Johnson²

1990

International Listening Association. Journal

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Two studies of the effects of linguistic diversity upon judgments of communicator attributes and message effectiveness

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

The Influence of Speech Rate Stereotypes and Rate Similarity or Listeners' Evaluations of Speakers

The Influence of Speech Rate Stereotypes and Rate Similarity or Listeners' Evaluations of Speakers

Placement and frequency of powerless talk and impression formation

The Relationship Between the Use of Hesitations and/or Hedges and Lecture Listening: The Role of Perceived Importance as a Mediating Variable

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