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From talk to telepathy: The spontaneous use of insider language in casual conversation
2024-09-16
Abstract excerpt
<p>Close friends seem to communicate almost telepathically. A single word or phrase can be loaded with meaning that would take pages of text to explain to an outsider. This linguistic compression is undeniably efficient. But is efficiency the only reason friends often speak in code? In a series of studies, we show that when people use “insider language” with each other they feel closer. Friends, as expected, use i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3a7e5c91-b083-5fc1-82fe-715654c88407
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/g38cx