Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers

Language Accommodation is “we adjust our communicational behavior to maintain integrity, distance or identity” (Giles and Coupland,1991:66). Do lawyers shift their discourse norms in order to obtain the information required from witnesses in a courtroom? In this study, 24 lawyers were interviewed...

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Main Authors: David, Maya Khemlani, Gan, Kah Hui, David, Yoong, Singh, Balbir
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/1/Linguistic_Accommodation.pdf
http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/
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