ACCOMMODATION THEORY

Cards (5)

  • What does accommodation theory explain?
    Why speakers either emphasise or minimise the social distance between each other through their language choices
  • what is convergence?
    when two speakers make their language more similar to each other
  • what is upward convergence?
    one or both participants are moving towards standard English
  • what is downward convergence?
    one or both participants are moving away from standard English, using more colloquial forms
  • what is divergence?
    when two speakers make their language more different to each other, can be upward or downward