@article{2018,title={SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO IMMIGRATION, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION},abstractNode={Migration is a phenomenon that affects nearly every aspect of society. Language is also one of these elements affected by immigration. In this paper, the language changes that are likely to be developed in the languages of the migrants who use different dialects or varieties of the same language and the effects of the migrations to the homeland language will be emphasized. Questions of “What are the changes in the dialects in contact after the migration? Can the language of the emigrants have some influences on the homeland dialect? If there are changes in language are they only limited to that region? How and in what way does the diffusion of the linguistic changes occur?” will be answered within the framework of social language science theories.In this context, accomodation theory developed by Howard Giles and others in the 1970s as a communication theory and then applied to the dialects in contact by Peter Trudgill as a result of the detailed analysis of the language usages in various parts of the UK, will be based. In the framework of this theory, the following concepts will be introduced: accomodation, short-term accomodation, long-term accommodation, accent convergence, sailent speech features, diffusion, intermediate forms, hypercorrection, hyperdialectism, transmission, incompleteness, mixed dialects, approximation/fudged dialects, interdialect, hyperdiyalectism, hypercorrection, hyperadaptation, koinéization, levelling, simplizing, reallocation, social-class dialect variants, stylistic variants, areal variants, allophonic variants.},author={Şahru PİLTEN-UFUK},year={2018},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}