The phenomenon of linguistic accommodation, at the interface of semantics and pragmatics, is essentially a question of the ability of the speaker to adjust to his or her background or purpose. This issue proposes to shed light on it from a number of successive and complementary perspectives, linked to the phenomena of interaction, intersubjective adjustment and interpersonal variations in dialogues or oral communication situations: Laurent Rouveyrol in a corpus of TV political debates, Caroline Peynaud for the use of the determinant in the general press of the United States, Pauline Levillain observing American speakers in an interactional context, and Lyndon Higgs in conversations of speakers of a British dialect with speakers of standard English. Two other views usefully complement this contemporary overview of accommodation studies: Nicolas Ballier and Léa Burin are interested in phonetic convergence in learning situations, and Charles Brasart analyses situations where monolingual speakers address bilingual in political discourse in North America.