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Chapter 5/20/2006 5:00 PM Page 293. Giles, H., & Ogay, T. (2007). Communication Accommodation Theory . In B. B. Whaley & W. Samter (Eds.), Explaining Communication : Contemporary theories and exemplars (pp. 293-310). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 16. Communication Accommodation Theory Howard Giles and Tania Ogay University of California, Santa Barbara INTRODUCTION. Imagine a conversation between an older male professor of British origin, a male African American undergraduate student, and a female postdoctoral student from Switzerland taking place in an American University. Think of the variety of social dimensions involved in this situation: gender, culture and ethnicity, social and occupational status, age, and so forth.
bal features (e.g., smiling, gazing) in such a way as to become more similar to their interlocutor’s behavior. For instance, during the (1973) Watergate Hearings, John Dean (coun-selor to then President Nixon) accommodated the formality of his language style to that of
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