Language Change
- Created by: Lauren Ellis
- Created on: 30-05-13 13:20
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- Language Change theories
- Howard Giles' Communication Accommodation theory
- communication developed my Howard Giles.
- Argues that 'when people interact they adjust there speech, their vocal patterns and their gestures, to accommodate to others.'
- theory links between 'language, context and identity'
- Convergence
- strategies though individuals adapt to each others communicative behaviours, to reduce social differences
- Divergence
- instances in which individuals accentuate speech and non-verbal differences between themselves and their interlocutors
- sometimes individuals try to engage in convergence can be seen as
- Over - accommodating
- despite their good intentions their convergence can be seen as condescending
- Over - accommodating
- sometimes individuals try to engage in convergence can be seen as
- instances in which individuals accentuate speech and non-verbal differences between themselves and their interlocutors
- Over - accommodating
- despite their good intentions their convergence can be seen as condescending
- two main accommodation process
- Convergence
- strategies though individuals adapt to each others communicative behaviours, to reduce social differences
- Divergence
- instances in which individuals accentuate speech and non-verbal differences between themselves and their interlocutors
- sometimes individuals try to engage in convergence can be seen as
- sometimes individuals try to engage in convergence can be seen as
- instances in which individuals accentuate speech and non-verbal differences between themselves and their interlocutors
- Convergence
- Howard Giles' Communication Accommodation theory
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