Message comprehensibility and persuasion: effects of complex language in counterattitudinal appeals to laypeople

Article Abstract:

Two dual process models were used to examine how complex language influenced persuasion when making counterattitudinal appeals. Results indicate models such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model and the Heuristic-Systematic Model accurately reflect how people's attitudes are influenced by different complexities of language. Easily comprehended speech is more persuasive regardless of the speaker's status, whereas more complex language requires the audience to perceive the speaker as having an authoritative status to be persuasive.

Research, Semantics, Attitude change

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The siren scream of telesex: speech, seduction and simulation

Article Abstract:

Telesex, or phone sex, has become a key element in the atmosphere of erotomania in modern society. Telesex uses seduction and simulation to substitute hyperreality for reality, and encourages the hyperrealization of sexuality. It is possible to argue that telesex has become more real than sexuality itself, and that talk about sex is now a fully embodied practice. The hyperrealization of sexuality will cause society to reassess the relations and dynamics of the current reality of sex.

Social aspects, Telephone pornography

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Language and persuasion: Tag questions as powerless speech or as interpreted in context

Article Abstract:

An examination of the interaction between tag questions and source credibility determined that tag questions affect persuasion differently when used by high and low credibility sources. Thus it appears that tag questions can have different effects on information processing, depending on who uses the tag.

Analysis, Language and languages, Communication, Communications

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