Contexts of Accommodation - Developments in Applied Sociolinguistics

In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection.

List of contents

List of contributors; 1. Accommodation theory: communication, context and consequence Howard Giles, Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland; 2. Audience accommodation in the mass media Allan Bell; 3. Accommodation on trial: processes of communicative accommodation in courtroom interaction Per Linell; 4. Accommodation in medical consultations Richard L. Street, Jr; 5. Accommodation and mental disability Heidi E. Hamilton; 6. Accommodation in therapy Kathleen Ferrara; 7. Accommodation in native-nonnative interactions: going beyond the 'what' to the 'why' in second-language research Jane Zuengler; 8. Interethnic accommodation: the role of norms Cynthia Gallois and Victor J. Callan; 9. Organisational communication and accommodation: toward some conceptual and empirical links Richard Y. Bourhis; Index.

Summary

In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns.

Product details

• Assisted by: Justine Coupland (Editor), Justine Dr Coupland (Editor), Nikolas Coupland (Editor), Howard Giles (Editor), Keith Oatley (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2007
• EAN: 9780521361514
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36151-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 691 g
• Series: Society for Experimental Biolo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies