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Howard Giles

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Accommodation Theory: people accommodate the person whom they are addressing by changing their language

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Types of accommodation

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  1. convergence- making your language similar to the person you are addressing, decreasing the social distance
  2. Divergence- speakers increase their social distance by using their dialect and accent more than usual.
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