“Hit vs. violent”: the interactive effect of language abstraction and describer’s power on audience’s perception of communication accuracy

• Main Author: Chen, Fan Xuan
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70700
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Language is an essential tool for our daily communications. Based on the Linguistic Category Model and the established works on power-abstraction relationship, this study examined the interactive effect of language abstraction and describers’ power on the audience’s perception of communication accur...