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[PDF] Convergence and Divergence in Telephone Conversations: A Case

One important aspect of speech convergence is its dichotomous categorization Imagine, for example, a man who intends to take part in a job interview He might decide to speak with a more prestigious accent in order to be better perceived by the interviewer thereby practicing upward convergence

[PDF] Accommodation theory

of linguistic-prosodic-nonverbal features including speech rate, paus al phenomena viewer is an example of upward convergence, and shifting to street lan-

[PDF] convergence, divergence, and mixing - School of Anthropology

Examples of a multi-party conversation are looked at through the lens of Giles et al 's (1991) Speech Accommodation Theory to view the ebbs and flows of the

[PDF] Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

20 oct 2007 · Convergence of grammatical deficits in SLI across languages? Case morphology in spontaneous speech innovation, and why we need more digital My examples will be both from Scandinavia and from other parts of the

[PDF] Examining the relationship between language divergence - CORE

that even a minor speech divergence yields negative effects efforts to accommodate native languages; for example, listeners engage in more reciprocal

[PDF] Style and Register

Example 1 (Book, example 1, P: 235) Three differentrequests for Speech Convergence: Adapting a speech style that attempts to reduce social distance by