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powerless speech: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

a speaking style full of hedges, hesitations and intensifiers that leads listeners to judge the speaker as less credible.

In sociolinguistics, powerless speech refers to a speaking style full of hedges, hesitations and intensifiers that leads listeners to judge the speaker as less credible. This meaning comes from Erickson (1978) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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Erickson, B., Lind, E. A., Johnson, B. C., & O'Barr, W. M. (1978). Speech style and impression formation in a court setting: The effects of “powerful” and “powerless” speech. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 14(3), 266-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1031(78)90015-x

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