Preface to the series Acknowledgements Introduction-Society and language use Jürgen Jaspers 1. Linguistic antecedents 2. Antecedents in social theory 3. Late modern trends and issues Accommodation theory Nikolas Coupland 1. Overview 2. Speech accommodation theory 3. Conceptual developments 4. The accommodation model: Predictive or interpretive? 5. Discourse attuning Agency and language Laura M.Ahearn 1. Practice theory 2. Anthropological contributions to practice theory 3. Intentionality 4. The grammatical encoding of agency 5. Talk about agency-Meta-agentive discourse 6. Language in action,agency in language ……
