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[1] For example, at a family dinner, where you would expect to hear a more colloquial, less prestigious variety of language (called "L variety" in studies of diglossia), family members might switch to a highly prestigious form (H variety) in order to discuss school or work. At work (where you would expect high prestige language) interlocutors ...
New York Fashion Week isn’t the only major fashion event happening this month. On Monday, fashion icon Michael Kors testified in an antitrust trial in Manhattan as a Federal Trade Commission ...
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), is a United States Supreme Court case determining the standard for admitting expert testimony in federal courts. In Daubert , the Court held that the enactment of the Federal Rules of Evidence implicitly overturned the Frye standard ; the standard that the Court articulated is referred to ...
An example of this is that prestige based leaders signal their status with an upwards head tilt versus a downward head tilt for dominance based leaders. [34] Humans use voice changes to signal status relationships with deepening vocal pitch during peer interactions indicating higher social rank. [ 35 ]
In legal proceedings, generally, facts that rely upon an individual's memory or knowledge are most reliably proven by having the person give testimony in court: he appears in person before a judge at a time and place known to other interested persons, swears that his testimony will be true, states his testimony so that all can hear it, and can ...
An argument from authority [a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument. [1]The argument from authority is a logical fallacy, [2] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.
An example is Sanskrit, an ancient prestige language that has incorporated the vernacular pronunciations of and [b] for word-initial y-and v-. [57] The prestige language may also change under the influence of specific regional dialects in a process known as regionalization.
If the issue is the defendant's mental state at the time of the offense, the ultimate issue would be the defendant's sanity or insanity during the commission of the crime. . In the past, expert witnesses were allowed to give testimony on ultimate issues, such as the applicability of the insanity defense to a particular defenda