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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in other forms of enforcement, deviance which has taken place once is assumed capable of repetition.
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Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms, and then lapse into deviance later on.
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On the other hand, the gallery of types of male deviance is far more richly furnished.
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Prompted largely by developments in psychiatry, a change occurred in the very definition of deviance .
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The question stylistics must consider is: how are these three concepts of deviance , prominence, and foregrounding interrelated?
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We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance.
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We saw too the marked trend to disavow deviance amongst the women whose personal histories are discussed in Chapter 2.