An examination of the social psychological basis of style shifting suggests that, contrary to Labovian theory, many style shifts are not a function of shifts in attention to speech and that there are other more explanatory ways of analyzing style shifts. Some reasons for this view are: (1) attention to speech is sometimes negatively correlated with standardness or correctness; (2) style can be manifested in speech shifts that do not fall along the standardness or correctness dimensions; and (3) attention to speech is inadequate as an explanation for style shifting in most situations and can be causally unrelated to style shifting in either experimental or naturalistic situations. Four major categories of stylistic variation that do not fit the accommodation paradigm but complement it are grouped and referred to as "extravergence": interlanguage variation used as learning, communication, or performance strategies by second language speakers; systematic variation according to attention to speech; systematic variation according to linguistic environment; and systematic variation for other social psychological purposes, such as conforming to norms, negotiation, and self-expression. Six pages of references conclude the document. (MSE)