“what a speaker needs to know to communicate
appropriately within a particular language
community” (Saville-Troike 2003).
Microsocial Factors
Has been based on
the framework of the
accomodation
theory.
Speakers change their
pronunciation and even the
grammatical complexity of
sentences they use to sound
more like whomever they are
talking to.
Variable features
Are multiple linguistic forms which
are used by different speakers of a
language, or by the same speakers
at different times, with the same
meaning and function; which
occur at every linguistic level.
The type of variable feature that can occur
depends on the communicative context
Linguistic context
Language
form and
function
Ex:Coming/comin’
Psychological context
The attention given during the
production
Microsocial context
Interaction related to
communicative events when the
language is being produced