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  2. Communication accommodation theory - Wikipedia

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    Like speech accommodation theory, communication accommodation theory continues to draw from social psychology, particularly from four main socio-psychology theories: similarity-attraction, social exchange, causal attribution and intergroup distinctiveness. These theories help to explain why speakers seek to converge or diverge from the language ...

  3. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    The communication accommodation theory (CAT), developed by Howard Giles, professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, seeks to explain the cognitive reasons for code-switching, and other changes in speech, as a person either emphasizes or minimizes the social differences between himself and the other person(s) in ...

  4. Contingency theory of accommodation - Wikipedia

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    The theory of contingency is premised on the different possibilities for organizational communication at any point within the advocacy-accommodation continuum. This view of communication approach based on a continuum differs from the view proposed by the more traditional Four models of public relations communication .

  5. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Communication accommodation theory. This theory focuses on linguistic strategies to decrease or increase communicative distances. In relation to linguistics, communication accommodation theory is the idea when two people are speaking to one another, one participant modifies the way they speak to accommodate another person in a given context.

  6. Style (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Communication accommodation theory Communication accommodation theory (CAT) seeks to explain style-shifting in terms of two processes: convergence, in which the speaker attempts to shift their speech to match that of the interlocuter to gain social approval, and divergence, in which the speaker attempts to distance themselves from the ...

  7. Category:Communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Situational crisis communication theory; Social comparison theory; Social constructionism; Social identity model of deindividuation effects; Social information processing (theory) Social network; Social objects; Social representation; Social support; Social Support Questionnaire; Social undermining; Source–message–channel–receiver model ...

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    For example, 72% of survey respondents with grandchildren say they hardly ever feel isolated compared with 62% of those without grandchildren. Why younger families aren’t having kids.

  9. Audience design - Wikipedia

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    The audience design model was inspired by Giles' communication accommodation theory and Bell's own research on the speech of radio news broadcasters in New Zealand.The study focused on two radio stations which shared the same recording studio and some of the same individual newsreaders.