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SOCIOLECT AND IDIOLECT
CASE STUDIES
ACCOMMODATION THEORY
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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