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Publication details [#27829]

Niederhoffer, Kate G. and James W. Pennebaker. 2002. Linguistic style matching in social interaction. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21 (3) : 337–360.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dyadic interaction | interaction structure | style | text analysis

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study uses text analysis to assess the degree to which interactants coordinate their use of words in natural conversations. Findings show that dyadic interactants use linguistic style matching on both conversational and turn-by-turn level.