Speech Accommodation Theory: The First Decade and Beyond

Giles, Howard; Mulac, Anthony; Bradac, James J.; Johnson, Patricia J.

doi:10.1080/23808985.1987.11678638

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“…Naturally, many social behaviors are the basis for this process of comparison, and language is just one of the ways in which an individual develops a strong social identity. Social identity theory is a key principle behind communicative accommodation theory (Giles et al 1987), and to this extent it has become a dimension regularly employed in the investigation and interpretation of language variation.…”

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The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research

Holmes¹,

Meyerhoff²

1999

Lang. Soc.

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This article provides an introduction to this issue of Language in Society by exploring the relationship of the concept of Community of Practice (CofP) to related terms and theoretical frameworks. The criterial characteristics and constitutive features of a CofP are examined; the article points out how a CofP framework is distinguished from other sociolinguistic and social psychological frameworks, including social identity theory, speech community, social network and social constructionist approaches.

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The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research

Holmes¹,

Meyerhoff²

1999

Lang. Soc.

346

181

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“…Speaking rate adaptation is probably not universally a good thing, especially if taken to extremes (Suzuki 2001). For example, overadaptation in the direction of slow output may be perceived as patronizing (Giles et al 1987), and variability may clash with the image or personality the system is designed to project.…”

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“…This is an example of convergence or "accommodation" (Giles et al 1987), as has often been observed in human-human dialog.…”

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Automatic User-Adaptive Speaking Rate Selection

Ward¹,

Nakagawa²

2004

International Journal of Speech Technology

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Today there are many services which provide information over the phone using a prerecorded or synthesized voice. These voices are invariant in speed. Humans giving information over the telephone, however, tend to adapt the speed of their presentation to suit the needs of the listener. This paper presents a preliminary model of this adaptation.In a corpus of simulated directory assistance dialogs the operator's speed in number-giving correlates with the speed of the user's initial response and with the user's speaking rate.Multiple regression gives a formula which predicts appropriate speaking rates, and these predictions correlate (.46) with the speeds observed in good dialogs in the corpus. It is therefore easy, at least in principle, to make systems which adapt their speed to users' needs.

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“…: 108). may be circumstances where the speaker employs transference or code-switching!3 to "diverge" linguistically and/or psychologically from the interlocutor (Genesee and Bourhis 1988: 229;Giles et al 1987Giles et al : 27-34, 1991bGiles and Coupland 1991: 65-71), and that deviations caused by transference are not always corrected because of a counteracting "social strategy" (see 3.4 .1.1. 3).…”

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Language Contact: The Case of Japanese in Australia and New Zealand

Nagao¹

2002

Journal of Japanese Linguistics

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Speech Accommodation Theory: The First Decade and Beyond

Cited by 261 publications

References 8 publications

The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research

The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research

Automatic User-Adaptive Speaking Rate Selection

Language Contact: The Case of Japanese in Australia and New Zealand

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