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Publication details [#12458]
Giles, Howard and Peter Powesland. 1997. Accommodation Theory. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 232–239.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
An extract from an early statement of the social psychological model of accomodation theory: speakers can be expected to accomodate their speech towards those of their audiences.