Abstract Drawing on concepts such as convergence, divergence and maintenance associated with Communication Accommodation Theory, this article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in relation to their identity and social distance between them and their interlocutors. Our analysis suggests that the strategies of accommodation deployed by individuals can be related to common values/tendencies that are maintained by the groups and communities to which they belong, raising issues about structural influence on individual language choice and agency. We observe that enhancing the ethnolinguistic vitality of the home and the community in which senior members hold the key to language maintenance should be considered vital in reducing the new in-group distance created by young members. Moreover, multilingual policies which enable flexible attainment goals for all languages may provide a way forward for equity and reduction of social distance between different ethnic groups in society.

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语言选择，身份和社交距离：越南的少数民族学生

摘要本文利用与交流适应理论相关的趋同，分歧和维持等概念，考察了一群越南少数民族学生与他们与对话者之间的身份和社会距离有关的语言选择。我们的分析表明，个人部署的适应策略可能与他们所属的团体和社区所维护的共同价值观/倾向相关，从而引发了有关对个人语言选择和代理的结构性影响的问题。我们观察到，增强家庭和社区的语言能力，让高级成员掌握语言维护的关键，这应被认为对减少年轻成员创造的新的群体距离至关重要。此外，