Joe Ferullo

Mar 20, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Joe Ferullo |Melissa Dahl |S. L. Masters |David Sanderson

1 Introduction Theories of speech accommodation and audience design aim to account for patterns of convergence and divergence in speech during social interaction. Convergence is often interpreted as creating rapport, whereas divergence is seen as a way of disaffiliating, based on the notion of similarity attraction in psychology (Bourhis et al. 1979; Bell 2001; Pardo et al. 2012).