Language attitudes and the Accommodation Theory: the interaction between Sociolinguistics and Social Psychology

Authors

  • Cândida Mara Britto Leite

Keywords:

language attitudes, accommodation theory, caipira /R/.

Abstract

The present study investigates the language attitudes related to the pronunciation of caipira /R/, and taking into account the Accommodation Theory by Giles, Taylor & Bourhis (1973)
and Giles & Powesland (1975), discusses the linguistic variants found in the data as those variants referred by the informants. The corpus comprises data collected from four native inhabitants of Campinas, a city in the countryside of São Paulo state, Brazil. These data were recorded, submitted to acoustic analysis and examined in conformity with the Accommodation Theory. The analysis indicates that as a consequence of an accommodation process, the informants produced a /R/variant distinct from the typical one of their own dialect.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Leite, C. M. B. (2016). Language attitudes and the Accommodation Theory: the interaction between Sociolinguistics and Social Psychology. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 40(2), 1017–1028. Retrieved from https://revistas.gel.org.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1358

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Section

Sociolinguística e Dialetologia