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Language Accommodation Theory

Language Accommodation Theory is a sociolinguistic framework that explains how individuals adjust their language use in social interactions to either converge with or diverge from their interlocutors, thereby managing social identity and group dynamics.

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Language style as audience design

Allan Bell · Language in Society · 1984 · 2.9K citations

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<b>Language</b> : Contexts and consequences. By Howard Giles and Nikolas Coupland. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991. Pp. xvi, 244. Paper $21.00.

Douglas Biber · Language · 1993 · 840 citations

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Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory

Nikolas Coupland, Justine Coupland, Howard Giles et al. · Language in Society · 1988 · 530 citations

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Towards a theory of interpersonal accommodation through language: some Canadian data

Howard Giles, Donald M. Taylor, Richard Y. Bourhis · Language in Society · 1973 · 502 citations

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Speech Accommodation Theory: The First Decade and Beyond

Howard Giles, Anthony Mulac, James J. Bradac et al. · Annals of the International Communication Association · 1987 · 395 citations

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Authors

221

  1. HG
    Howard Giles

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    10 publications · 2K citations

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  2. NC
    Nikolas Coupland

    Cardiff University, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 671 citations

    4

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  3. CG
    Cindy Gallois

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    3 publications · 152 citations

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  4. JG
    Jessica Gasiorek

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    3 publications · 44 citations

    3

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  5. ND
    Nigel Dewdney

    University of Bath, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 73 citations

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Institutions

128

  1. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    1K citations

  2. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    98 citations

  3. University of South Africa

    Pretoria, South Africa

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    210 citations

  4. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    234 citations

  5. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    52 citations

  6. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    2.4K citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    994 citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    129 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Language and Social Psychology

    JLSP · 17 publications · 773 citations

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  2. Language & Communication

    5 publications · 128 citations

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  3. Language in Society

    5 publications · 4.1K citations

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  4. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 4 publications · 376 citations

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  5. Multilingua

    4 publications · 91 citations

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