Speech Investigation. Do people use a higher register on the telephone than when speaking in person?

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Speech Investigation- Do people use a higher register on the telephone than when speaking in person?

Abstract

The aim of this investigation was to compare the type of register (high/low) people used when they spoke on the telephone and in person. The null hypothesis states that there will be no change in register when speaking on the telephone and when speaking in person. To conduct my investigation, I recorded at random a one-minute sample of speech during each conversation using a Dictaphone. The sample was played back until I was able to accurately complete the tally chart for each set of data. In order to measure the type of register people used in each context a tally chart was used to record the number of times the subject used a particular language device.

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Procedure

The investigation was conducted by gathering a recording of a one-minute sample of a conversation in each context. The sample was recorded using a Dictaphone which would make the clarity of the speech easy to comprehend and to derive data from the sample. Three sets of data were collected so the results have been replicated and tested for reliability. The sample of recording is very short, this was to make it easy and less time-consuming to derive data from the sample. It can be argued that the sample is not long enough to gather sufficient and reliable data; ...

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