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Attention To Speech

  • Definition: The approach to style shifting which maintains that style shifting is conditioned primarily by the amount of attention given to speech: The more attention paid to speech, the more formal the style will become.

    Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

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