A Dynamic Analysis of College Students' Strategies in Establishing Identities from the Perspective of Speech Accommodation

摘要

Based on sociolinguistic Speech Accommodation Theory, this study will take college students as research samples to explore systematically how the interlocutors accommodate to their social identities by adopting various strategies in social communication. Two perspectives will be explored respectively, namely, speech convergence and speech divergence. Two questions will be analyzed systematically: (1) What strategies the college students will adopt in specific contexts to establish their identities? (2) What are the factors that may affect their dynamic selection of the strategies in accordance with their identities in social interaction? It is expected to provide a new angle for dynamic discourse analyses in Chinese contexts.