Ourooba Shetewi

Oct 30, 2024 | mdpi.com | Ourooba Shetewi |Karen Corrigan |Ghada Khattab

1. IntroductionSociolinguistic research has paid considerable attention to stylistic or intraspeaker variation, i.e., linguistic variation at the level of individual speakers in response to situational factors. Early work in this area was pioneered by William Labov (1966) and framed as attention to speech. Labov (1972, p. 112), for example, asserts that individuals are not monostylistic, suggesting that speech styles can be arranged on a continuum based on the speaker’s level of attention.

Oct 16, 2023 | mdpi.com | Ourooba Shetewi

1. IntroductionSpeech accommodation, which refers to altering one’s speech in response to an interlocutor (Giles et al. 1991; Gallois et al. 2005; Dragojevic et al. 2016), is a hallmark of human interaction. Gasiorek et al.