English Dictionary

Pilots … use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same thing the body of an aircraft. … We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members … we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]