The belief that people will try to make themselves and other people distant from a particular individual or group through language use
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What is the convergence/accommodation theory?
The theory that people change their language in order to become closer to a particular individual or group during a conversation
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What did William Labov find?
That in a department store in New York, the results showed people in prestigious stores used a prestigious accent whereas the less prestigious stores had customers with a less prestigious accent
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What is the convergence/accommodation theory?
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The theory that people change their language in order to become closer to a particular individual or group during a conversation
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