Ashley Hesson
Biographic Data
| ID | 228688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Hesson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Hesson |
| SIGNATURE | HESSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6023-8457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Old‐age language variation and change: Confronting variationist ageism
The speech of older adults (65+ years old) is a rich resource for a wide range of researchers, including oral historians, developmental psychologists, health communication scholars, speech and hearing specialists, and discourse analysts. Yet in variationist sociolinguistics—the study of language variation, language change, and their social motivations—older adults have fallen afoul of a kind of scholarly ageism. This article provides linguists wi…
Discourse-pragmatic variation across situations, varieties, ages: I Don't Know in Sociolinguistic and Medical Interviews
Discourse Marker Like in Real Time: Characterizing the Time-Course of Sociolinguistic Impression Formation
Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-containing speech is judged as friendlier and less intelligent than controls. Though informative, such studies cannot speak to the magnitude and/or stability of …
Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English
Discourse markers (like, I don't know, etc.) are known to vary in frequency across English dialects and speech settings. It is difficult to make meaningful generalizations over these differences, since quantitative discourse-pragmatic variation studies 'lack [a] coherent set of methodological principles' (Pichler 2010:582). This has often constrained quantitative studies to focus on the form, rather than the function of discourse-pragmatic featur…
Medically speaking: Mandative adjective extraposition in physician speech
Clinical recommendations are central features of physician-patient interaction. Mandative adjective extraposition (MAE; e.g.it's important to...) is one of many linguistic forms used by physicians in providing recommendations. This study decomposesMAE, a relatively unexplored sociolinguistic variable, into features that contribute to its deontic interpretation. It establishes thatMAE's component features convey different degrees of illocutionary …
Individual Sensitivity to the Frequency of Socially Meaningful Linguistic Cues Affects Language Attitudes
In forming an impression of a speaker, listeners are attentive to the frequency of nonstandard language features, using it to calibrate their judgments. We show that the ability to track and socially evaluate nonstandard variant frequency is subject to individual differences. Listeners judged an aspiring newscaster on the standardness of her speech in a series of read-aloud passages that had been manipulated for proportional frequency of a nonsta…
Individual Sensitivity to the Frequency of Socially Meaningful Linguistic Cues Affects Language Attitudes
In forming an impression of a speaker, listeners are attentive to the frequency of nonstandard language features, using it to calibrate their judgments. We show that the ability to track and socially evaluate nonstandard variant frequency is subject to individual differences. Listeners judged an aspiring newscaster on the standardness of her speech in a series of read-aloud passages that had been manipulated for proportional frequency of a nonsta…
Discourse Marker Like in Real Time: Characterizing the Time-Course of Sociolinguistic Impression Formation
Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-containing speech is judged as friendlier and less intelligent than controls. Though informative, such studies cannot speak to the magnitude and/or stability of …
Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English
Discourse markers (like, I don't know, etc.) are known to vary in frequency across English dialects and speech settings. It is difficult to make meaningful generalizations over these differences, since quantitative discourse-pragmatic variation studies 'lack [a] coherent set of methodological principles' (Pichler 2010:582). This has often constrained quantitative studies to focus on the form, rather than the function of discourse-pragmatic featur…
Old‐age language variation and change: Confronting variationist ageism
The speech of older adults (65+ years old) is a rich resource for a wide range of researchers, including oral historians, developmental psychologists, health communication scholars, speech and hearing specialists, and discourse analysts. Yet in variationist sociolinguistics—the study of language variation, language change, and their social motivations—older adults have fallen afoul of a kind of scholarly ageism. This article provides linguists wi…
Medically speaking: Mandative adjective extraposition in physician speech
Clinical recommendations are central features of physician-patient interaction. Mandative adjective extraposition (MAE; e.g.it's important to...) is one of many linguistic forms used by physicians in providing recommendations. This study decomposesMAE, a relatively unexplored sociolinguistic variable, into features that contribute to its deontic interpretation. It establishes thatMAE's component features convey different degrees of illocutionary …
Discourse-pragmatic variation across situations, varieties, ages: I Don't Know in Sociolinguistic and Medical Interviews
Medically speaking: Mandative adjective extraposition in physician speech
Clinical recommendations are central features of physician-patient interaction. Mandative adjective extraposition (MAE; e.g.it's important to...) is one of many linguistic forms used by physicians in providing recommendations. This study decomposesMAE, a relatively unexplored sociolinguistic variable, into features that contribute to its deontic interpretation. It establishes thatMAE's component features convey different degrees of illocutionary …
Individual Sensitivity to the Frequency of Socially Meaningful Linguistic Cues Affects Language Attitudes
In forming an impression of a speaker, listeners are attentive to the frequency of nonstandard language features, using it to calibrate their judgments. We show that the ability to track and socially evaluate nonstandard variant frequency is subject to individual differences. Listeners judged an aspiring newscaster on the standardness of her speech in a series of read-aloud passages that had been manipulated for proportional frequency of a nonsta…
Discourse Marker Like in Real Time: Characterizing the Time-Course of Sociolinguistic Impression Formation
Discourse marker like (DML) is recognized as a highly stigmatized feature of American English, one with strong ideological ties to inarticulate, “Valley Girl” speech. Previous work suggests that individual listeners form impressions that both reference and perpetuate DML's status, as DML-containing speech is judged as friendlier and less intelligent than controls. Though informative, such studies cannot speak to the magnitude and/or stability of …
Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English
Discourse markers (like, I don't know, etc.) are known to vary in frequency across English dialects and speech settings. It is difficult to make meaningful generalizations over these differences, since quantitative discourse-pragmatic variation studies 'lack [a] coherent set of methodological principles' (Pichler 2010:582). This has often constrained quantitative studies to focus on the form, rather than the function of discourse-pragmatic featur…
Discourse-pragmatic variation across situations, varieties, ages: I Don't Know in Sociolinguistic and Medical Interviews
Old‐age language variation and change: Confronting variationist ageism
The speech of older adults (65+ years old) is a rich resource for a wide range of researchers, including oral historians, developmental psychologists, health communication scholars, speech and hearing specialists, and discourse analysts. Yet in variationist sociolinguistics—the study of language variation, language change, and their social motivations—older adults have fallen afoul of a kind of scholarly ageism. This article provides linguists wi…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)