Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: David, Maya Khemlani, Gan, Kah Hui, David, Yoong, Singh, Balbir
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2010
• الموضوعات: P Philology. Linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/1/Linguistic_Accommodation.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/

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...