单词 | speech accommodation theory |
释义 | > as lemmasspeech accommodation theory accommodation theory n. Linguistics and Sociology (more fully communication accommodation theory, speech accommodation theory) a theoretical approach which analyses the manner in which people adjust their style of speech or interaction in accordance with or in response to that of their interlocutors; cf. sense 1g. ΚΠ 1973 H. Giles et al. in Lang. in Society 2 177 A theoretical framework for these results and other forms of interpersonal accommodation was suggested. (Bilingualism; social interaction; accommodation theory.) 1993 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 98 1215 The investigators employ Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) as a heuristic frame for their research. 1994 Lang. in Society 23 184 Work in accommodation theory suggests that a complex interplay of linguistic and psychological factors will establish the predisposition to understand. 2007 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 91 841/2 According to speech accommodation theory, both convergence and divergence constitute strategies of identification with the communicative norms of some reference group. < as lemmas |
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