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ERIC Number: EJ570329
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-5309
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Accommodating Your Data: The Use and Misuse of Accommodation Theory in Sociolinguistics.
Meyerhoff, Miriam
Language & Communication, v18 n3 p205-25 Jul 1998
Argues for a more rigorous application of accommodation theory in sociolinguistics, presenting an example of how such rigor might be pursued in an analysis of conversational Bislama, a creole spoken in the Republic of Vanuatu. Focus is on the link between speakers' identities and their linguistic behavior. (MSE)
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Language Research, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language, Pidgins, Research Methodology, Sociolinguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Vanuatu
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