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Contexts of accommodation, developments in applied sociolinguistics, edited by Howard Giles, Justine Coupland, Nikolas Coupland

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Contexts of accommodation

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edited by Howard Giles, Justine Coupland, Nikolas Coupland

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second seriesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

developments in applied sociolinguistics

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, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns. Accommodative processes can, for example, facilitate or impede language learners' proficiency in a second language as well as immigrants' acceptance into certain host communities; affect audience ratings and thereby the life of a television program; affect reaction to defendants in court and hence the nature of the judicial outcome; and be an enabling or detrimental force in allowing handicapped people to fulfil their communicative potential. Contexts of Accommodation will appeal to researchers and advanced students in language and communication sciences, as well as to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists.--, Provided by publisher

Accommodation theory : communication, context, and consequence / Howard Giles, Nikolas Coupland, and Justine Coupland -- Audience accommodation in the mass media / Allan Bell -- Accommodation on trial : processes of communicative accommodation in courtroom interaction / Per Linell -- Accommodation in medical consultations / Richard L. Street, Jr. -- Accommodation and mental disability / Heidi E. Hamilton -- Accommodation in therapy / Kathleen Ferrara -- Accommodation in native-nonnative interactions : going beyond the "what" to the "why" in second-language research / Jane Zuengler -- Interethnic accommodation : the role of norms / Cynthia Gallois and Victor J. Callan -- Organizational communications and accommodation : toward some conceptual and empirical links / Richard Y. Bourhis