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Professor-Student Register Differences

Something students are conditioned to do is change the way they speak to people in power, specifically their professors. They want to sound knowledgeable and inquisitive, refraining from using slang, meme speaks, and overuse of filler words. One difference we were intrigued by was register changes in lectures. Register is defined as the style of […]

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How Polite is Your Professor? A Gendered Analysis of Hedging as a Tool for Student Engagement at UCLA

Sociolinguistics

Layla Hernandez, Yasleen Robinson, Charlotte Norris Throughout their lectures, professors typically engage with their students. This process often requires the professors to implement certain linguistic devices in their speech that allow for them to sound less aggressive and threatening. These linguistic features include forms of hedging. Both male and female professors rely on hedges to

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