Linguistic accommodation in online communication: The role of language and gender

Sabater, Carmen Pérez

doi:10.4067/s0718-09342017000200265

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“…For example, Levon and Holmes-Elliott (2013) report that working-class female speakers accentuate sex differences in their articulation of /s/, especially in mix-sex interactions in order to construct a class-based feminine identity. However, in very general terms, research finds that female speakers tend to converge more than male speakers, especially in mixed-sex interactions (Giles and Ogay 2007;Lelong and Bailly 2011;Palomares et al 2016;Perez-Sabater 2017). Namy et al (2002, p. 23) also note that both male and female speakers accommodate less to female interlocutors.…”

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Accommodation Patterns in the Speech of Arabic-Speaking Children and Adolescents: A Variationist Analysis

Shetewi

2023

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This paper presents a variationist analysis of patterns of speech accommodation by 40 Arabic-speaking children and adolescents (aged 3–17) experiencing dialect contact in a Bedouin speech community near Damascus, Syria. It examines participants’ use of the phonological variables (θ), (ð), and (q), and the morphophonological feminine suffix (-a) in recorded sociolinguistic interviews and play sessions with two female fieldworkers, a local and an urban speaker, in order to investigate accommodation patterns across different interlocutors. Accommodation patterns were influenced by age, gender, and the linguistic variable under examination. Convergence to the urban interviewer was most evident in the realization of (q), whereas little convergence, and indeed variation, occurred in the realization of (-a), and more convergence occurred in the speech of girls and speakers younger than 15. Divergence and maintenance emerged in the speech of 15–17-year-old male speakers. These patterns are analysed in light of Accommodation Communication Theory and issues of identity and linguistic prestige in Arabic. Accommodative behaviour in the speech of participants exhibits their awareness of the social value of the phonological variables under investigation and demonstrates a high level of sociolinguistic awareness and competence.

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Accommodation Patterns in the Speech of Arabic-Speaking Children and Adolescents: A Variationist Analysis

Shetewi

2023

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“…De este modo, proponemos como proyección de este estudio comparar las fórmulas de tratamiento de estas interacciones con aquellas de profesores de género masculino, debido que hay estudios que plantean que hombres y mujeres tienen estilos conversacionales distintos; por una parte, ellas estarían más interesadas en crear y desarrollar una relación, mientras que ellos se centrarían en comunicar la información y resguardar su autonomía y posición (Tannen, 1982;Silva-Corvalán, 2001;Kendall & Tannen, 2001;Pérez-Sabater, 2017). En efecto, Maltz y Broker (1982) señalan que la competencia comunicativa se desarrolla en grupos y subculturas de un mismo sexo.…”

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Fórmulas de tratamiento nominales del profesorado y estudiantado de escuelas públicas de la Región de La Araucanía: Relaciones y roles discursivos en interacciones orales en el aula

Cruz

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Cocio

2022

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“…The difference should not be overstated—online discourse is in a number of respects rather similar to speech (McCulloch, 2019)—but there has been relatively little work on accommodation and convergence in online written interactions. What there is suggests that convergence (whether short or long term) occurs in broadly similar ways in online written discourse as in spoken discourse (Cassell & Tversky, 2005; Pavalanathan & Eisenstein, 2015; Pérez‐Sabater, 2017). Earlier experimental work with artificial‐language interactions also found strong evidence of linguistic convergence that did not look especially dissimilar to natural‐language convergence (Roberts, 2010; Sneller & Roberts, 2018), except to the extent that artificial‐language paradigms may amplify rates of change (Roberts, 2017).…”

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Linguistic Convergence to Observed Versus Expected Behavior in an Alien‐Language Map Task

Wade

Roberts

2020

Cognitive Science

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Individuals shift their language to converge with interlocutors. Recent work has suggested that convergence can target not only observed but also expected linguistic behavior, cued by social information. However, it remains uncertain how expectations and observed behavior interact, particularly when they contradict each other. We investigated this using a cooperative map task experiment, in which pairs of participants communicated online by typing messages to each other in a miniature "alien" language that exhibited variation between alien species. The overall task comprised three phases, in each of which participants were told that they would be paired with a different partner. One member of the pair was given explicit linguistic expectations in each phase, while the software controlled whether or not observed behavior from their partner would be consistent or inconsistent with these expectations. The other participant was given no such expectations, allowing us to control for the role of expectation. Participants converged to both observed and expected linguistic behavior, and convergence was boosted when observation and expectation were aligned. When expected and observed behavior were misaligned, participants updated their expectations, though convergence levels did not drop. Furthermore, participants generalized what they learned about one partner to apparent novel partners of the same alien species. We also discuss individual variation in convergence patterns and the lack of a relationship between linguistic convergence and success at the map task. Findings are consistent with observations outside the laboratory that language users converge toward expected linguistic behavior. They also have broader implications for understanding linguistic accommodation and the influence of social information on linguistic processing and production.

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Linguistic accommodation in online communication: The role of language and gender

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Accommodation Patterns in the Speech of Arabic-Speaking Children and Adolescents: A Variationist Analysis

Accommodation Patterns in the Speech of Arabic-Speaking Children and Adolescents: A Variationist Analysis

Fórmulas de tratamiento nominales del profesorado y estudiantado de escuelas públicas de la Región de La Araucanía: Relaciones y roles discursivos en interacciones orales en el aula

Linguistic Convergence to Observed Versus Expected Behavior in an Alien‐Language Map Task

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