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.

Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) provides a wide-ranging framework aimed at predicting and explaining many of the adjustments individuals make to create, main-tain, or decrease social distance in interaction. It explores the different ways in which we accommodate our communication, our motivations for doing so, and the consequences. CAT

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