Accommodative Tendencies in Multidialect Communication

This issue of the Journal of English Linguistics includes articles that examine accommodation within the context of dialect contact. This special issue consolidates ongoing work in sociophonetics as a means of testing conflicting concepts of the social psychology and sociophonetics of intergroup com...

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Published inJournal of English linguistics Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 187 - 192
Main Authors Purnell, Thomas, Yaeger-Dror, Malcah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2010
Sage Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Dialects
English language
Language contact
Languages in contact
Linguistic accommodation
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
Linguistic variation
Dialect contact
Social psychology
Sociolinguistics
Dialect
Phonetics
Language contact
Communication
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Summary:This issue of the Journal of English Linguistics includes articles that examine accommodation within the context of dialect contact. This special issue consolidates ongoing work in sociophonetics as a means of testing conflicting concepts of the social psychology and sociophonetics of intergroup communication. In particular, the authors address accommodation in discourse settings to local or to nonlocal (global) features.
ISSN:0075-4242
1552-5457
DOI:10.1177/0075424210373038