Using solidarity features at the radio of Adrar

Abstract EN

This paper reports the results of a field research within the paradigms of Communication Accommodation Theory and Speech Accommodation Theory in an Arabic diglossic situation.

Its main context is the local Adrar radio broadcast system.

The data are elicited from various programs and newscasts.

The study considers the use of contracted conjunctions by radio animators and newsreaders to either converge or diverge from their respective audiences.

The results show that the agriculture program directed to low level and lesseducated listeners is the one that uses the contracted conjunctions the most.

As for the newsreaders, the female participant has a significant tendency towards contracting the conjunction; whereas, her male counterpart does not converge towards the audience but sticks to the standard linguistic norms of radio broadcast, i.e.: Modern Standard Arabic