A linguistic market assigns social value to ways of speaking within an arena. Its standards depend on institutions and audiences, so linguistic resources can carry different weight across settings. Diagnosis examines those conditions instead of assuming that credibility is an inherent property of particular wording.
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.