Review

· Ivy Zhang, Journal Summary 5, 09-18-2020

Gasiorek, Jessica, and Laszlo Vincze. "Modeling Motives for Bilingual Accommodation by Minority and Majority Language Speakers." Journal of Language and Social Psychology, vol. 35, no. 3, 2016, pp. 305-316. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, doi:10.1177/0261927X15605144

· The research in this article was discussed in The Communication Accommodation Theory. The ways the speakers' self-reported reasons for the linguistic convergence and minority languages predicted the uses of the language in Finland. In this study, they focused on two of the theories in the central constructs, convergence and divergence. The first goal of this study is to understand the situation better and how everything applies to the theories. In other words, putting into perspective how motives for both the convergence and divergence theories jointly predict the convergence to the language of a linguistic outgroup, in a bilingual context. 

· Method 

· The Participants in this study were students in secondary schools, located in both Finland & Scotland. The participants of this study were sixteen to nineteen years of age. Both the  Finnish & the Swedish samples consisted of a larger female base. The Finnish sample consisted of a sixty three percent female base, while the Swedish sample consisted of a fifty eight percent female base. The Structural Equation  modeling was used to model the motives. It was also used to convergence and divergence as predictors of linguistic convergence to the outgroup languages.