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Bradac, James J., John Waite Bowers and John A. Courtright. 1980. Lexical variations in intensity, immediacy, and diversity: An axiomatic theory and causal model. In St.Clair, Robert N. and Howard Giles, eds. The social and psychological contexts of language. L. Erlbaum. pp. 193–223.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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The authors discuss the nature of language variables, offer 26 empirically based axioms and a causal model representing these axioms, discuss communicative consequences and possibilities for further research.