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An approach to style-shifting which maintains that speakers shift style based on their social-psychological adjustment to the addressee; strategic adjustment toward the addressee is convergence; adjustment away from the addressee is divergence.
Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
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