Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Sociolinguistics - Brossura

Giles, Howard

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ISBN 10: 0521369606 ISBN 13: 9780521369602

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

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.

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"This volume, edited by three of the major researchers in accommodation theory, has much to offer a variety of readers." Karen Adams, American Anthropologist

Descrizione del libro

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521369606
• ISBN 13: 9780521369602
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 332