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Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 333] 2023
► pp. 185–211

Chapter 7
Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions

The role of socio-pragmatic factors

ORCID logo | Saarland University
ORCID logo | University of Zurich | Zurich University of Applied Sciences

The present study explores the extent to which vocal accommodation in conflicting situations can be explained by socio-pragmatic factors such as interpersonal relationships (i.e., politeness) and pragmatic events occurring in apology-centered interactions. A total of 28 dyadic conversations where 14 target speakers (8 males and 6 females) interacted in apology-centered role-plays with a status superior and a friend interlocutor were annotated phonetically, orthographically, pragmatically and analyzed separately. Accommodation was measured with the difference-in-distance paradigm comparing the first and last 30% of the conversations. The main results indicate that the conversations with a status superior are characterized by more divergent behavior than the conversations with a friend. These findings suggest that interpersonal power dynamics between interlocutors could serve as a predictor for accommodation behavior.

Keywords: vocal accommodation, F0 variability, interpersonal relationships, apology-centered interactions
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1Vocal accommodation behavior
    • 2.2Function of accommodation behavior
    • 2.3Factors affecting accommodation behavior
    • 2.4Accommodation effects
  • 3.Methods
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Stimuli
    • 3.3Annotation
    • 3.4Measuring accommodation
    • 3.5Statistical analysis
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1F0 variation depending on social distance between the interlocutors
    • 4.2F0 accommodation behavior as a function of social distance
    • 4.3F0 accommodation behavior as a function of speaker gender
    • 4.4Within-speaker analysis of accommodation
  • 5.Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
Published online: 21 February 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.333.07ibr
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