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  2. Parliamentary style debate - Wikipedia

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    Parliamentary style debate, colloquially oftentimes just Parliamentary debate, is a formal framework for debate used in debating societies, academic debate events and competitive debate. It has its roots in parliamentary procedure and develops differently in different countries as a result. The style was first formalised in 19th century England.

  3. Style (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In this theory, speakers constantly negotiating their relationship, not only with the audience, but also with other nonpresent people or groups that come up in the discourse. [17] [21] [22] Style-shifting as an act of identity This theory proposes that speakers shape their speech to associate or disassociate themselves with specific social groups.

  4. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  5. Extemporaneous speaking - Wikipedia

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    Extemporaneous speaking. Extemporaneous Speaking (Extemp, or EXT) is a speech delivery style/speaking style, and a term that identifies a specific forensic competition. The competition is a speech event based on research and original analysis, done with a limited-preparation; in the United States those competitions are held for high school and ...

  6. Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia

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    That is, the speaker has the ability to use language in a way that is appropriate in the given situation. It is possible for a speaker to be communicatively competent in more than one language. [12] Demographic characteristics such as areas or locations have helped to create speech community boundaries in speech community concept.

  7. Audience design - Wikipedia

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    Audience design. Audience design is a sociolinguistic model formulated by Herb Clark in 1982 and Gregory Murphy [1] and later elaborated by Allan Bell in 1984 [2] which proposes that linguistic style-shifting occurs primarily in response to a speaker's audience. According to this model, speakers adjust their speech primarily towards that of ...

  8. Speech community - Wikipedia

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    Speech community. A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. [1] It is a concept mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to ...

  9. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Wikipedia

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    Cartesian linguistics. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (known in linguistic circles simply as Aspects[1]) is a book on linguistics written by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1965. In Aspects, Chomsky presented a deeper, more extensive reformulation of transformational generative grammar (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory ...