Accommodation Theory is Controversial
In fact, even the most trivial aspects of speech and pronunciation can take on crucial importance, and listeners often detect slight differences and afford them social significance. A person’s speaking style might change due… Continue reading
Second-Language and the Accommodation Theory
A social psychologist rather than a linguist, Giles declared that the foundation of accommodation theory lay in social psychological research on similarity attraction. He claimed, in essence, that because people both… Continue reading