Background: Differential performance in clinical skills assessments is a widespread phenomenon, for which there remain few explanations. Aim: To better understand the conversational contexts of simulated consultations and how candidates actually behave in these consultations and to determine sociolinguistic factors for highand low-performing candidates. Design & setting: Taking the Membership o...

This paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication accommodation theory (CAT) for the study of patient-provider interaction. CAT’s sociolinguistic strategies—approximation, interpretability, interpersonal control, discourse management, and emotional expression—are succinctly introduced and their use in studies of patient-provider interaction discussed. The majo...

In the earlier study “Code-Switching and Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, we present a unified account language use multilingual communities using key insight OPTIMIZATION to capture variations between communities. This paper explores extensions implications our optimality-theoretic model grammars. We provide evidence indicating that vast array empirical facts bilingual (code...

Abstract The correlation between external factors such as age, gender, ethnic group membership and language variation is one of the stalwarts sociolinguistic theory. repertoire individual members speaker groups, vis-à-vis community-wide variation, represents a somewhat slippery ground for developing testing models change has been researched with reference to accommodation (Bell 1984), style shi...

there are different strategies for selecting stocks, and different investors use different strategies according to their risk tolerance or their expected rate of return. in this study, the profitability of a broad range of stock se-lection strategies in tehran stock exchange over the period 1370-1383, has been examined, and it has been investigated whether the successful strategies in other cou...