Ellen Bouchard Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 93070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Bouchard Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen Bouchard |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The dementia narrative: Writing to reclaim social identity
Finding a New Voice: Writing Through Health Adversity
This memorial tribute to James J. Bradac draws on lessons friends and colleagues learned through his witness of living well with serious disability. Analysis of published disability narratives provides the basis for identifying how writing for self and others empowers persons with acquired disability. Acquiring a disability can threaten a person's sense of self and ability to communicate effectively with others. Journal writing allows individuals…
Evaluations of Older Adult Assertiveness in Problematic Clinical Encounters
Within a communication predicament of aging framework, this study examined assertiveness as an option for older adults confronted with a problematic health care conversation. Older and younger participants evaluated scenarios in which senior client targets with or without hearing loss employed either assertive, passive, or aggressive responses. As predicted, assertive seniors were evaluated as most competent and likely to be satisfied with future…
Evaluations of Overhelping and Underhelping Communication: Do Old Age and Physical Disability Matter
Older adults and persons with disability experience communication predicaments involving inappropriate help. In a retail setting, the authors examined the meanings of overhelping and underhelping and how these may be affected by the recipient's age and (dis)ability status. Young adults ( n= 221) were presented with a picture of either a young or an older target seated in an armchair or a wheelchair. Participants then read three different conversa…
Communication Beliefs About Youth and Old Age in Asia and Canada
Communication Predicaments of Aging: Patronizing Behavior toward Older Adults
Within a communication accommodation framework, this article reviews the emerging literature on patronizing communication directed to older adults in both institutional and community settings. The verbal and nonverbal features of patronizing messages (modifications of communication based on age-based stereotypes of incompetence and dependence) are outlined, with an emphasis on the multiple, often ambiguous meanings of such messages. The authors o…
Depression in Elderly Persons and its Correlates in Family Practice: A Canadian Study
Depression was studied in a Canadian community sample of 582 men and 906 women over the age of 65 years. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) provided the measure of depressive symptomatology. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule was used to confirm clinical diagnosis. A total of 8% of the sample (4.3% of men and 10.4% of women) were at or above the cut-off point of 16 on the Depression Scale. Significant Pearson correlati…
Talk to Elders: Social Structure, Attitudes and Forms of Address
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement
Dale M. Willows, Ellen Bouchard Ryan, The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 253-266
Accent and Social Class Effects on Status and Solidarity Evaluations
Male speakers of either standard British or standard American English were presented to 60 American undergraduates as either lower-class or middle-class individuals. Speakers were rated on social status, solidarity, and speech. Moreover, respondents made causal attributions for the speakers' hypothetical successes and failures. British speakers were upgraded on status as were middle-class persons whereas main effects in the opposite direction eme…
Attitudes towards Language Variation: Social and Applied Contexts
Social Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Native Speaker Evaluations of Non-Native Speech
Research concerning native speaker reactions to the speech of language learners has generally flowed from an interpersonal perspective (i.e. speaker/listener). On the other hand, the broader social psychological domain of language attitude research has typically been based on an intergroup perspective (i.e. ingroup/outgroup). The two perspectives are elaborated here and shown to provide complementary interpretations of evaluations of non-native s…
Alphabetical Seriation as a Reading Readiness Indicator
Past research has shown seriation in prereaders to be predictive of later reading ability. A new alphabetical seriation task, involving a random set of letters as elements to seriate, was proposed as a better predictor of reading readiness than traditional seriation. Although both tasks require the ordering of discrete elements, alphabetical seriation also presupposes a limited knowledge of linguistic material which adds to its predictive value f…
Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adult Speakers: Effects of Varying Speech Rates
Undergraduates listened to tape recorded voices of either younger (20-22 years) or older (60-65 years) male speakers who varied in their rate of speech (slow, medium, and fast). The listeners evaluated the speakers on various personality and social characteristics, made causal attributions for success or failure of the speakers in hypothetical situations, estimated speaker ages, and rated the voices on several speech parameters. Overall, faster s…
Evaluations of Middle Class and Lower Class Speakers of Standard American and German-Accented English
Male speakers (aged 45-60) of either standard or German-accented American English were presented to middle class Anglo-American undergraduates as individuals belonging to either the lower or middle class. The respondents rated speakers on status, solidarity, and speech dimensions and also completed social distance and belief similarity items. The nonstandard speech style affected listener evaluations negatively on all measures while social class …
Development of Metalinguistic Performance in the Early School Years
The extent to which children in kindergarten, second, and fourth grade could control their knowledge of syntax was examined in two metalinguistic tasks, judgment and repetition of sentences that varied in grammaticality. The older children produced more accurate judgments, but no age differences were noted for repetitions. Furthermore, unbiased judgment accuracy was correlated with the prereaders' reading readiness scores, providing some evidence…
Performance of bilinguals in a picture-word interference task
Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals
Approximately 100 college students were asked to evaluate Spanish-English bilingual speakers on the basis of taped readings of an English text. The speakers were chosen to represent a wide range of accentedness. The relationship between the amount of accentedness heard and the attributed characteristics of the speaker was investigated. The results show that the students made rather fine discriminations among varying degrees of accentedness in rat…
Evaluative Reactions of Bilingual Anglo and Mexican American Adolescents Toward Speakers of English and Spanish
Article EVALUATIVE REACTIONS OF BILINGUAL ANGLO AND MEXICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS TOWARD SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH was published on January 1, 1975 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1975, issue 6)
Reading as a Constructive Language Process
Communication Predicaments of Aging: Patronizing Behavior toward Older Adults
Within a communication accommodation framework, this article reviews the emerging literature on patronizing communication directed to older adults in both institutional and community settings. The verbal and nonverbal features of patronizing messages (modifications of communication based on age-based stereotypes of incompetence and dependence) are outlined, with an emphasis on the multiple, often ambiguous meanings of such messages. The authors o…
Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals
Approximately 100 college students were asked to evaluate Spanish-English bilingual speakers on the basis of taped readings of an English text. The speakers were chosen to represent a wide range of accentedness. The relationship between the amount of accentedness heard and the attributed characteristics of the speaker was investigated. The results show that the students made rather fine discriminations among varying degrees of accentedness in rat…
Evaluations of Middle Class and Lower Class Speakers of Standard American and German-Accented English
Male speakers (aged 45-60) of either standard or German-accented American English were presented to middle class Anglo-American undergraduates as individuals belonging to either the lower or middle class. The respondents rated speakers on status, solidarity, and speech dimensions and also completed social distance and belief similarity items. The nonstandard speech style affected listener evaluations negatively on all measures while social class …
The dementia narrative: Writing to reclaim social identity
Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adult Speakers: Effects of Varying Speech Rates
Undergraduates listened to tape recorded voices of either younger (20-22 years) or older (60-65 years) male speakers who varied in their rate of speech (slow, medium, and fast). The listeners evaluated the speakers on various personality and social characteristics, made causal attributions for success or failure of the speakers in hypothetical situations, estimated speaker ages, and rated the voices on several speech parameters. Overall, faster s…
The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement
Dale M. Willows, Ellen Bouchard Ryan, The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 253-266
Evaluative Reactions of Bilingual Anglo and Mexican American Adolescents Toward Speakers of English and Spanish
Article EVALUATIVE REACTIONS OF BILINGUAL ANGLO AND MEXICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS TOWARD SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH was published on January 1, 1975 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1975, issue 6)
Finding a New Voice: Writing Through Health Adversity
This memorial tribute to James J. Bradac draws on lessons friends and colleagues learned through his witness of living well with serious disability. Analysis of published disability narratives provides the basis for identifying how writing for self and others empowers persons with acquired disability. Acquiring a disability can threaten a person's sense of self and ability to communicate effectively with others. Journal writing allows individuals…
Evaluations of Older Adult Assertiveness in Problematic Clinical Encounters
Within a communication predicament of aging framework, this study examined assertiveness as an option for older adults confronted with a problematic health care conversation. Older and younger participants evaluated scenarios in which senior client targets with or without hearing loss employed either assertive, passive, or aggressive responses. As predicted, assertive seniors were evaluated as most competent and likely to be satisfied with future…
Performance of bilinguals in a picture-word interference task
Talk to Elders: Social Structure, Attitudes and Forms of Address
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
Evaluations of Overhelping and Underhelping Communication: Do Old Age and Physical Disability Matter
Older adults and persons with disability experience communication predicaments involving inappropriate help. In a retail setting, the authors examined the meanings of overhelping and underhelping and how these may be affected by the recipient's age and (dis)ability status. Young adults ( n= 221) were presented with a picture of either a young or an older target seated in an armchair or a wheelchair. Participants then read three different conversa…
Development of Metalinguistic Performance in the Early School Years
The extent to which children in kindergarten, second, and fourth grade could control their knowledge of syntax was examined in two metalinguistic tasks, judgment and repetition of sentences that varied in grammaticality. The older children produced more accurate judgments, but no age differences were noted for repetitions. Furthermore, unbiased judgment accuracy was correlated with the prereaders' reading readiness scores, providing some evidence…
Reading as a Constructive Language Process
Reading as a Constructive Language Process
Evaluative Reactions of Bilingual Anglo and Mexican American Adolescents Toward Speakers of English and Spanish
Article EVALUATIVE REACTIONS OF BILINGUAL ANGLO AND MEXICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS TOWARD SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH was published on January 1, 1975 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1975, issue 6)
Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals
Approximately 100 college students were asked to evaluate Spanish-English bilingual speakers on the basis of taped readings of an English text. The speakers were chosen to represent a wide range of accentedness. The relationship between the amount of accentedness heard and the attributed characteristics of the speaker was investigated. The results show that the students made rather fine discriminations among varying degrees of accentedness in rat…
Development of Metalinguistic Performance in the Early School Years
The extent to which children in kindergarten, second, and fourth grade could control their knowledge of syntax was examined in two metalinguistic tasks, judgment and repetition of sentences that varied in grammaticality. The older children produced more accurate judgments, but no age differences were noted for repetitions. Furthermore, unbiased judgment accuracy was correlated with the prereaders' reading readiness scores, providing some evidence…
Performance of bilinguals in a picture-word interference task
Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adult Speakers: Effects of Varying Speech Rates
Undergraduates listened to tape recorded voices of either younger (20-22 years) or older (60-65 years) male speakers who varied in their rate of speech (slow, medium, and fast). The listeners evaluated the speakers on various personality and social characteristics, made causal attributions for success or failure of the speakers in hypothetical situations, estimated speaker ages, and rated the voices on several speech parameters. Overall, faster s…
Evaluations of Middle Class and Lower Class Speakers of Standard American and German-Accented English
Male speakers (aged 45-60) of either standard or German-accented American English were presented to middle class Anglo-American undergraduates as individuals belonging to either the lower or middle class. The respondents rated speakers on status, solidarity, and speech dimensions and also completed social distance and belief similarity items. The nonstandard speech style affected listener evaluations negatively on all measures while social class …
Social Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Native Speaker Evaluations of Non-Native Speech
Research concerning native speaker reactions to the speech of language learners has generally flowed from an interpersonal perspective (i.e. speaker/listener). On the other hand, the broader social psychological domain of language attitude research has typically been based on an intergroup perspective (i.e. ingroup/outgroup). The two perspectives are elaborated here and shown to provide complementary interpretations of evaluations of non-native s…
Alphabetical Seriation as a Reading Readiness Indicator
Past research has shown seriation in prereaders to be predictive of later reading ability. A new alphabetical seriation task, involving a random set of letters as elements to seriate, was proposed as a better predictor of reading readiness than traditional seriation. Although both tasks require the ordering of discrete elements, alphabetical seriation also presupposes a limited knowledge of linguistic material which adds to its predictive value f…
Attitudes towards Language Variation: Social and Applied Contexts
Accent and Social Class Effects on Status and Solidarity Evaluations
Male speakers of either standard British or standard American English were presented to 60 American undergraduates as either lower-class or middle-class individuals. Speakers were rated on social status, solidarity, and speech. Moreover, respondents made causal attributions for the speakers' hypothetical successes and failures. British speakers were upgraded on status as were middle-class persons whereas main effects in the opposite direction eme…
The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement
Dale M. Willows, Ellen Bouchard Ryan, The Development of Grammatical Sensitivity and Its Relationship to Early Reading Achievement, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 253-266
Talk to Elders: Social Structure, Attitudes and Forms of Address
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
Depression in Elderly Persons and its Correlates in Family Practice: A Canadian Study
Depression was studied in a Canadian community sample of 582 men and 906 women over the age of 65 years. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) provided the measure of depressive symptomatology. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule was used to confirm clinical diagnosis. A total of 8% of the sample (4.3% of men and 10.4% of women) were at or above the cut-off point of 16 on the Depression Scale. Significant Pearson correlati…
Communication Predicaments of Aging: Patronizing Behavior toward Older Adults
Within a communication accommodation framework, this article reviews the emerging literature on patronizing communication directed to older adults in both institutional and community settings. The verbal and nonverbal features of patronizing messages (modifications of communication based on age-based stereotypes of incompetence and dependence) are outlined, with an emphasis on the multiple, often ambiguous meanings of such messages. The authors o…
Communication Beliefs About Youth and Old Age in Asia and Canada
Finding a New Voice: Writing Through Health Adversity
This memorial tribute to James J. Bradac draws on lessons friends and colleagues learned through his witness of living well with serious disability. Analysis of published disability narratives provides the basis for identifying how writing for self and others empowers persons with acquired disability. Acquiring a disability can threaten a person's sense of self and ability to communicate effectively with others. Journal writing allows individuals…
Evaluations of Older Adult Assertiveness in Problematic Clinical Encounters
Within a communication predicament of aging framework, this study examined assertiveness as an option for older adults confronted with a problematic health care conversation. Older and younger participants evaluated scenarios in which senior client targets with or without hearing loss employed either assertive, passive, or aggressive responses. As predicted, assertive seniors were evaluated as most competent and likely to be satisfied with future…
Evaluations of Overhelping and Underhelping Communication: Do Old Age and Physical Disability Matter
Older adults and persons with disability experience communication predicaments involving inappropriate help. In a retail setting, the authors examined the meanings of overhelping and underhelping and how these may be affected by the recipient's age and (dis)ability status. Young adults ( n= 221) were presented with a picture of either a young or an older target seated in an armchair or a wheelchair. Participants then read three different conversa…
The dementia narrative: Writing to reclaim social identity
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