Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Sociolinguistics

Book Overview

The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our language and communication patterns toward others. Since accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been elaborated and expanded many times. In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521369606
• ISBN13: 9780521369602
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"