For instance, the Interactive Alignment Model (Pickering and Garrod, 2004) claims that priming mechanisms, which are an inherent feature of humans' cognitive architecture, lead to interpersonal coordination during dialogue.
communication Accommodation Theory (Shepard et al., 2001) focuses on the external factors influencing linguistic accommodation (e.g., the wish to build rapport) and argues that converging on linguistic patterns reduces the social distance between interlocutors, which results in speakers being viewed more favourably.