Communication Accommodation Theory - CORE

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.

tral focus of the theory, other communicative symbols that people use to signal their identities (e.g., dress and hair styles, cosmetics, and eating patterns) can also be understood from a CAT ... upper class interviewer. Upward divergence would be indicated by the adoption of a swifter ... cussing shared leisure interests at a bar after the game).

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