Publications

Publication details [#52536]

Watt, D., Daniel Johnson and Carmen Llamas. 2009. Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border Town. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (4) : 381–407.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | identity negotiation | language change | language contact | nationality

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores the degree of speakers’ linguistic accommodation to members of putative in- and out-groups in a border town (viz. national identity markers' saliency) where such categorizations can be especially accentuated.