Interactional Sociolinguistics studies how listeners work out what an utterance is doing from cues such as intonation, timing, word choice, and language switching. Because these cues are learned and depend on context, unnoticed mismatches can produce unfair judgments of a speaker’s competence or sincerity.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainAcross Cultures
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.