![]() Why do you think Linford Christie (a black man in the early 1990s) may have wanted to show a difference between himself and his white peers? This is potentially an example of divergence. In 1992, the Black British athlete Linford Christie was accused by the press of deliberately speaking in 'incomprehensible' creole English when speaking to his white peers. ![]() This is an example of general accommodation.ĭo you do this when messaging someone? Many of us will choose the number of kisses (x) we put at the end of a message based on how many the other person uses.ĭo you change the way you text depending on who you're texting? formality, use of punctuation, and tone, to be more like the person they were emailing. ![]() They found that both males and females would accommodate their communication style, i.e. The sociolinguists Thomson, Murachver, & Green (2001) 3 looked at communication style in e-mail exchanges. ![]()
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