The authors conducted two studies on the effects of high and low linguistic diversity upon judgments of communicator attributes and message effectiveness. Generally, the first study demonstrated that low linguistic diversity negatively affects listeners’ evaluative judgments. These effects were independent of medium of presentation (oral vs. written) and of perceived situational formality (high vs. low). The second study demonstrated that the effects obtained in the previous study were produced by lexical diversity; differences in syntactic diversity were not related to differences in listeners’ judgments.
Two studies of the effects of linguistic diversity upon judgments of communicator attributes and message effectiveness
Reprints and Corporate Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:
Academic Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:
If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.
Related Research Data
Related research
People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.
Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.
Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.