Teoria variaţionistă kabatekiană şi procesul de acomodare lingvistică
The Kabatekian Variationalist Theory and the Linguistic Accommodation

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on different general aspects concerning the process of linguistic accommodation and the diaphasic dimension within linguistic variation. What we seek to demonstrate is that speakers’ discourses are plurivarietal: each individual “accommodates” his discourse according to situations and purpose, being conditioned by its own linguistic biography. For example, an individual from Calafindeşti will use „curechi” and „macahon” with people from his own village, but he will avoid using this type of regionalisms with persons from other areas, thus controlling to a certain degree his speech. Our paper is structured as follows: (i) first of all, the concept of linguistic accommodation is explained [Trudgill, 1986; Auer et al., 2005], (ii) secondly, we refer to the theories on the diaphasic dimension [Briz, 2010; Coşeriu, 1992; Kabatek, 2000, 2002; Koch and Oesterreicher, 2007; López Serena, 2007], (iii) then, we present examples of linguistic accommodation in Romanian and Spanish language; and, finally, we draw the conclusions.

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