Jeffery Pittam
Biographic Data
| ID | 82728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffery Pittam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffery |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittam |
| SIGNATURE | PITTAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
First Things First: Internet Relay Chat Openings
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was the Internet's first widely popular quasi-synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) system. While research has consistently demonstrated the interpersonal nature of IRC, and is now turning to more structurally-oriented topics, it is argued that IRC research now needs to systematically address links between interaction structures, technological mediation and the instantiation and development of interpersonal r…
Language and Social Interaction: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association attracts a membership from a wide range of disciplines. The unifying concern of language and social interaction (LSI) researchers is to understand how communication works through the empirical study of everyday language use and talk in social interaction. This essay, along with Sanders, Fitch, and Pomerantz’s contribution to this volume in Chapter 17, desc…
Pax Americana? Accent attitudinal evaluations in New Zealand, Australia and America
This study describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English and RP-type English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.A. Voices were chosen to represent the middle range of each accent, and balanced for paralinguistic features. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results indicated that the Amer…
The Historical and Emergent Enactment of Identity in Language
The Historical and Emergent Enactment of Identity in Language
Negotiating a working consensus: Conversations about HIV and Aids
Successful relationships demand neither harmony nor discord, but rather the resources to manage both polarities. Thus, miscommunication in many contexts can become part of an attempt to create a working consensus. This is especially likely in conversations between strangers, when there is little to be gained by arguing a position in either relational or self‐esteem terms. In this study we adopted a qualitative methodology to explore, in conversat…
Language strategies in the attribution of blame for HIV and Aids
This article examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual adults to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Seventy‐two female and 60 male Australian university students took part in the study. They were formed into groups of four, with each group taking part in discussions about HIV, AIDS, and related matters. Transcripts were examined for instances of blaming, and a coding scheme for levels of attribu…
Accent Accommodation in the Job Interview: Impact of Interviewer Accent and Gender
Using the framework of Communication Accommodation Theory, this study investigated the extent to which job applicants objectively and subjectively altered their accents to converge to or diverge from the speech style of the interviewer. Forty-eight male and 48 female job applicants participated in two interviews for a casual research assistant position. In one interview, the interviewer had a broad Australian English accent, and in the other one,…
Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat
Journal Article Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat Get access E. Sean Rintel, E. Sean Rintel 1E. Sean Rintel is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Jeffery Pittam is a reader in communication studies in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072; telephone: +61–7–3365–2589; fax: +61–7–3365–2799 Search f…
The Mediating Role of Narrative in Intergroup Processes: Talking about Aids
This article shows how the use of narrative mediates intergroup processes in spoken discourse. Sixty male and 72 female young Australian heterosexual adults participated in 4-person conversations (same-sex or mixed-sex) about HIV/AIDS and safe sex. Twvo hundred and thirty-two extracts from the transcripts that met the criteria for narratives were coded for in-group and out-group, agent and object (if any) named, extent of group homogeneity, and p…
Social Psychological Approaches to Using Natural Language Texts
In recent years, the trend toward using natural language texts in social-psychological research has grown increasingly strong and a number of diverse approaches to such texts have appeared in the literature. The articles in this special issue illustrate this trend. They also highlight several key issues for researchers interested in language, including the role of context, the status of speech versus speakers in the research design and analysis, …
Australian and Japanese Concepts of Expressive Behavior
This study investigated differences in the concepts of the expression of emotion held by Japanese and Australians for themselves and each other, both in terms of degree and kind of expressive behavior and in underlying dimensionality. Through a structured questionnaire, 80 Australian and 80 Japanese male and female students indicated how they thought they expressed eight emotions on 12 behaviors, and how someone of the other nationality would exp…
Perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese and English in Australia: A confirmatory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the goodness of fit between theoretical models proposed by ethnolinguistic vitality theory and data derived from a study of the perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of. Anglo‐Australian and Vietnamese‐Australian ethnic groups in Brisbane, Australia. This study aimed to test the viability of vitality as a uni‐dimensional construct, as well as to test the viability of the three proposed underlyin…
Perceived change in ethnolinguistic vitality by dominant and minority subgroups
This paper reports work on perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese‐ and Anglo‐Australians in Brisbane, as well as differences based on sex, level of education and, for Anglo‐Australians, residence in areas with either high‐ or low‐concentrations of Vietnamese‐Australians. As expected, Anglo‐Australians were perceived as much higher in vitality than Vietnamese‐Australians by all groups, while the latter were perceived as increasing marked…
The Long-Term Spectral Measurement of Voice Quality as a Social and Personality Marker: A Review
As a long-term vocal feature, voice quality can function as a marker of individuality, be a carrier of personality characteristics and affect, as well as being characteristic of social and ethnic groups. In measuring voice quality acoustically, therefore, the most appropriate measure is one that reflects this long-term nature, particularly when perceptual judgments are to be related to the acoustic values. One potentially useful long-term acousti…
Auditory and acoustic correlates of perceived accent change: Vietnamese schoolchildren acquiring Australian English
Predicting Impressions of Speakers from Voice Quality: Acoustic and Perceptual Measures
This study examined the relationship of an acoustic measure of speech based on the Long-Term Average Spectrum (LTAS), expert ratings of five voice qualities (breathy, creaky, nasal, tense, and whispery voices), and naive ratings of status and solidarity. Six male and six female speakers recorded a standard passage in the five voice types; these recordings were then analysed acoustically using the LTAS, judged by expert coders, and rated by underg…
Pax Americana? Accent attitudinal evaluations in New Zealand, Australia and America
This study describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English and RP-type English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.A. Voices were chosen to represent the middle range of each accent, and balanced for paralinguistic features. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results indicated that the Amer…
Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat
Journal Article Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat Get access E. Sean Rintel, E. Sean Rintel 1E. Sean Rintel is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Jeffery Pittam is a reader in communication studies in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072; telephone: +61–7–3365–2589; fax: +61–7–3365–2799 Search f…
First Things First: Internet Relay Chat Openings
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was the Internet's first widely popular quasi-synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) system. While research has consistently demonstrated the interpersonal nature of IRC, and is now turning to more structurally-oriented topics, it is argued that IRC research now needs to systematically address links between interaction structures, technological mediation and the instantiation and development of interpersonal r…
Accent Accommodation in the Job Interview: Impact of Interviewer Accent and Gender
Using the framework of Communication Accommodation Theory, this study investigated the extent to which job applicants objectively and subjectively altered their accents to converge to or diverge from the speech style of the interviewer. Forty-eight male and 48 female job applicants participated in two interviews for a casual research assistant position. In one interview, the interviewer had a broad Australian English accent, and in the other one,…
Perceived change in ethnolinguistic vitality by dominant and minority subgroups
This paper reports work on perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese‐ and Anglo‐Australians in Brisbane, as well as differences based on sex, level of education and, for Anglo‐Australians, residence in areas with either high‐ or low‐concentrations of Vietnamese‐Australians. As expected, Anglo‐Australians were perceived as much higher in vitality than Vietnamese‐Australians by all groups, while the latter were perceived as increasing marked…
Perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese and English in Australia: A confirmatory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the goodness of fit between theoretical models proposed by ethnolinguistic vitality theory and data derived from a study of the perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of. Anglo‐Australian and Vietnamese‐Australian ethnic groups in Brisbane, Australia. This study aimed to test the viability of vitality as a uni‐dimensional construct, as well as to test the viability of the three proposed underlyin…
Australian and Japanese Concepts of Expressive Behavior
This study investigated differences in the concepts of the expression of emotion held by Japanese and Australians for themselves and each other, both in terms of degree and kind of expressive behavior and in underlying dimensionality. Through a structured questionnaire, 80 Australian and 80 Japanese male and female students indicated how they thought they expressed eight emotions on 12 behaviors, and how someone of the other nationality would exp…
Predicting Impressions of Speakers from Voice Quality: Acoustic and Perceptual Measures
This study examined the relationship of an acoustic measure of speech based on the Long-Term Average Spectrum (LTAS), expert ratings of five voice qualities (breathy, creaky, nasal, tense, and whispery voices), and naive ratings of status and solidarity. Six male and six female speakers recorded a standard passage in the five voice types; these recordings were then analysed acoustically using the LTAS, judged by expert coders, and rated by underg…
Language strategies in the attribution of blame for HIV and Aids
This article examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual adults to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Seventy‐two female and 60 male Australian university students took part in the study. They were formed into groups of four, with each group taking part in discussions about HIV, AIDS, and related matters. Transcripts were examined for instances of blaming, and a coding scheme for levels of attribu…
The Mediating Role of Narrative in Intergroup Processes: Talking about Aids
This article shows how the use of narrative mediates intergroup processes in spoken discourse. Sixty male and 72 female young Australian heterosexual adults participated in 4-person conversations (same-sex or mixed-sex) about HIV/AIDS and safe sex. Twvo hundred and thirty-two extracts from the transcripts that met the criteria for narratives were coded for in-group and out-group, agent and object (if any) named, extent of group homogeneity, and p…
The Historical and Emergent Enactment of Identity in Language
Negotiating a working consensus: Conversations about HIV and Aids
Successful relationships demand neither harmony nor discord, but rather the resources to manage both polarities. Thus, miscommunication in many contexts can become part of an attempt to create a working consensus. This is especially likely in conversations between strangers, when there is little to be gained by arguing a position in either relational or self‐esteem terms. In this study we adopted a qualitative methodology to explore, in conversat…
Social Psychological Approaches to Using Natural Language Texts
In recent years, the trend toward using natural language texts in social-psychological research has grown increasingly strong and a number of diverse approaches to such texts have appeared in the literature. The articles in this special issue illustrate this trend. They also highlight several key issues for researchers interested in language, including the role of context, the status of speech versus speakers in the research design and analysis, …
Predicting Impressions of Speakers from Voice Quality: Acoustic and Perceptual Measures
This study examined the relationship of an acoustic measure of speech based on the Long-Term Average Spectrum (LTAS), expert ratings of five voice qualities (breathy, creaky, nasal, tense, and whispery voices), and naive ratings of status and solidarity. Six male and six female speakers recorded a standard passage in the five voice types; these recordings were then analysed acoustically using the LTAS, judged by expert coders, and rated by underg…
The Long-Term Spectral Measurement of Voice Quality as a Social and Personality Marker: A Review
As a long-term vocal feature, voice quality can function as a marker of individuality, be a carrier of personality characteristics and affect, as well as being characteristic of social and ethnic groups. In measuring voice quality acoustically, therefore, the most appropriate measure is one that reflects this long-term nature, particularly when perceptual judgments are to be related to the acoustic values. One potentially useful long-term acousti…
Auditory and acoustic correlates of perceived accent change: Vietnamese schoolchildren acquiring Australian English
Perceived change in ethnolinguistic vitality by dominant and minority subgroups
This paper reports work on perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese‐ and Anglo‐Australians in Brisbane, as well as differences based on sex, level of education and, for Anglo‐Australians, residence in areas with either high‐ or low‐concentrations of Vietnamese‐Australians. As expected, Anglo‐Australians were perceived as much higher in vitality than Vietnamese‐Australians by all groups, while the latter were perceived as increasing marked…
Perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of Vietnamese and English in Australia: A confirmatory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the goodness of fit between theoretical models proposed by ethnolinguistic vitality theory and data derived from a study of the perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of. Anglo‐Australian and Vietnamese‐Australian ethnic groups in Brisbane, Australia. This study aimed to test the viability of vitality as a uni‐dimensional construct, as well as to test the viability of the three proposed underlyin…
Social Psychological Approaches to Using Natural Language Texts
In recent years, the trend toward using natural language texts in social-psychological research has grown increasingly strong and a number of diverse approaches to such texts have appeared in the literature. The articles in this special issue illustrate this trend. They also highlight several key issues for researchers interested in language, including the role of context, the status of speech versus speakers in the research design and analysis, …
Australian and Japanese Concepts of Expressive Behavior
This study investigated differences in the concepts of the expression of emotion held by Japanese and Australians for themselves and each other, both in terms of degree and kind of expressive behavior and in underlying dimensionality. Through a structured questionnaire, 80 Australian and 80 Japanese male and female students indicated how they thought they expressed eight emotions on 12 behaviors, and how someone of the other nationality would exp…
The Mediating Role of Narrative in Intergroup Processes: Talking about Aids
This article shows how the use of narrative mediates intergroup processes in spoken discourse. Sixty male and 72 female young Australian heterosexual adults participated in 4-person conversations (same-sex or mixed-sex) about HIV/AIDS and safe sex. Twvo hundred and thirty-two extracts from the transcripts that met the criteria for narratives were coded for in-group and out-group, agent and object (if any) named, extent of group homogeneity, and p…
Language strategies in the attribution of blame for HIV and Aids
This article examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual adults to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Seventy‐two female and 60 male Australian university students took part in the study. They were formed into groups of four, with each group taking part in discussions about HIV, AIDS, and related matters. Transcripts were examined for instances of blaming, and a coding scheme for levels of attribu…
Accent Accommodation in the Job Interview: Impact of Interviewer Accent and Gender
Using the framework of Communication Accommodation Theory, this study investigated the extent to which job applicants objectively and subjectively altered their accents to converge to or diverge from the speech style of the interviewer. Forty-eight male and 48 female job applicants participated in two interviews for a casual research assistant position. In one interview, the interviewer had a broad Australian English accent, and in the other one,…
Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat
Journal Article Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat Get access E. Sean Rintel, E. Sean Rintel 1E. Sean Rintel is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Jeffery Pittam is a reader in communication studies in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072; telephone: +61–7–3365–2589; fax: +61–7–3365–2799 Search f…
The Historical and Emergent Enactment of Identity in Language
The Historical and Emergent Enactment of Identity in Language
Negotiating a working consensus: Conversations about HIV and Aids
Successful relationships demand neither harmony nor discord, but rather the resources to manage both polarities. Thus, miscommunication in many contexts can become part of an attempt to create a working consensus. This is especially likely in conversations between strangers, when there is little to be gained by arguing a position in either relational or self‐esteem terms. In this study we adopted a qualitative methodology to explore, in conversat…
Language and Social Interaction: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
The Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association attracts a membership from a wide range of disciplines. The unifying concern of language and social interaction (LSI) researchers is to understand how communication works through the empirical study of everyday language use and talk in social interaction. This essay, along with Sanders, Fitch, and Pomerantz’s contribution to this volume in Chapter 17, desc…
Pax Americana? Accent attitudinal evaluations in New Zealand, Australia and America
This study describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English and RP-type English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.A. Voices were chosen to represent the middle range of each accent, and balanced for paralinguistic features. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results indicated that the Amer…
First Things First: Internet Relay Chat Openings
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was the Internet's first widely popular quasi-synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) system. While research has consistently demonstrated the interpersonal nature of IRC, and is now turning to more structurally-oriented topics, it is argued that IRC research now needs to systematically address links between interaction structures, technological mediation and the instantiation and development of interpersonal r…
Psychology (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Communication (3 works)