TY - JOUR
T1 - Little chance for divergence
T2 - The role of interlocutor language constraint in online bilingual accommodation
AU - Vincze, László
AU - Gasiorek, Jessica
AU - Dragojevic, Marko
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Drawing on communication accommodation theory, the present paper explored how affective (i.e. identity related) and cognitive (i.e. comprehension related) motives drive young Swedish-speaking Finns to use Swedish in online communication when interacting with Finnish speakers. Questionnaire data were collected among Swedish-speaking secondary school students (N = 124). A Bayesian moderated mediation revealed that the use of Swedish was guided both by cognitive and affective motives. Furthermore, affective motives were stronger predictors of language behaviour in cases where participants did not perceive they were restricted by interlocutors' competence in Swedish. However, a similar effect was not detected for cognitive motives. Findings and their theoretical implications are discussed with respect to bilingual accommodation.
AB - Drawing on communication accommodation theory, the present paper explored how affective (i.e. identity related) and cognitive (i.e. comprehension related) motives drive young Swedish-speaking Finns to use Swedish in online communication when interacting with Finnish speakers. Questionnaire data were collected among Swedish-speaking secondary school students (N = 124). A Bayesian moderated mediation revealed that the use of Swedish was guided both by cognitive and affective motives. Furthermore, affective motives were stronger predictors of language behaviour in cases where participants did not perceive they were restricted by interlocutors' competence in Swedish. However, a similar effect was not detected for cognitive motives. Findings and their theoretical implications are discussed with respect to bilingual accommodation.
KW - accommodation
KW - bilingualism
KW - online communication
KW - Swedish in Finland
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U2 - 10.1111/ijal.12164
DO - 10.1111/ijal.12164
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010520748
SN - 0802-6106
VL - 27
SP - 608
EP - 620
JO - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)
JF - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)
IS - 3
ER -