The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations
underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our
language and communication patterns toward others. Since
accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has
attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been
elaborated and expanded many times. 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.
Accommodative processes can, for example, facilitate or impede
language learners' proficiency in a second language as well as
immigrants' acceptance into certain host communities; affect
audience ratings and thereby the life of a television program;
affect reaction to defendants in court and hence the nature of the
judicial outcome; and be an enabling or detrimental force in
allowing handicapped people to fulfil their communicative
potential. Contexts of Accommodation will appeal to researchers and
advanced students in language and communication sciences, as well
as to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists and
psychologists.
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