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This document is Page 68 of an academic text or report included in a House Oversight Committee production (Bates #021314). The text discusses psycholinguistics, specifically focusing on 'linguistic convergence' (how people adopt speech patterns of others to gain acceptance) and the impact of language as 'action at a distance.' It cites scholars Gün Semin and Gilpin, analyzing how listeners process speech, metaphor, and emotion to form social connections.
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| House Oversight Committee |
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"How does language bind us together and compel us to action, thought, and feeling?"Source
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"The impact of such communication is true action at a distance."Source
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"This kind of linguistic convergence is well documented and is moderated by social factors such as the desire to be accepted or the attempt to be persuasive."Source
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"Metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and other figures are generally thought of as being understood later in this process although in Gilpin’s chapter the immediate power of these to affect us is quite clear."Source
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