##  [Audience Design](/index.php/audience-design) 

  ##  [Audience Design](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/audience-design-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A sociolinguistic principle that speakers select and modify linguistic features—lexicon, register, phonology, and discourse strategies—on the basis of their beliefs about who is present or addressed, so as to align with, distance from, or otherwise orient toward particular addressees.