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As well as the problems concerned with obtaining good quality audio recordings, recording also raises important theoretical problems. The main problem is usually referred to as the observer’s paradox. Ideally we want to know how people use language when they are not being observed. When speakers know they are being observed, their language shifts towards more formal styles, probably rather erratically, as not everything in language is under equal conscious control, and as speakers probably go through cycles of half forgetting they are being recorded. So the most casual language is the most difficult to record. The language that linguists would most like to be able to record is the language which is most susceptible to contamination by observation.
With modem audio-recording equipment, there is, of course, no difficulty in recording speakers in many face-to-face situations or on the telephone. Some resea
A. grow used to being recorded, and that tape - affected speeches increase with time
B. do not grow used to being recorded, and that tape-affected speeches increase with time
C. grow used to being recorded, and that tape - affected speeches decrease with time
D. do not grow used to being recorded, and that tape - affected speeches decrease with time