Talk:Communication accommodation theory

Accents
As horribly un-PC as this may sound,"i like food" Bold textI can't help asking: has anyone considered including any studies on how some people change their accent when speaking to someone of a different region or race? I'll say it: I've noticed constantly that my white friends will affect an AAVE accent when speaking with a black person, ranging from barely perceptible to oh-my-god-why-are-you-talking-like-that. I'm referring to regular people that don't even notice they're doing it, not wiggers. Has this previously been mentioned, deemed racist and subsequently removed? Succubus MacAstaroth (talk) 01:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey Succubus NacAstaroth, I don't think your comment is un-PC at all, and I actually completely understand what you are saying here. I am presenting on CAT for a graduate course, and made some edits and updates to this page based on that research. I've actually seen a few research articles and examples that speak to exactly what you are mentioning here. I think this is a perfect case of overconvergence (or I've also seen it called overaccommodation), when a person tries to converge to another person while having little or no experience in the social norms that person considers to be appropriate for the conversation. I added a few notes about overconvergence to this article, as the concept was completely missing here but very prominent in my research on this subject. Typically, the message sender has the best intention when using convergence, but can come across as stereotypical, naive or mocking the other person unintentionally. (Now, in my opinion, if they are consciously making the effort to highlight the other person's dialect or accent, that would be an example of divergence).

In case you're interested in an example, check out "Communication Between Native and Non-Native Speakers in Second Language Acquisition" (Young, 1998). Though there are other takeaways from this article, one of the findings is that native english speakers engaged in "foreign talk"- speaking really slowly or simply to the non-native speaker, even though that person may be fluent or close to fluent in their language. Other examples that are now present in the article- when people speak "baby talk" to the eldery or physically disabled, regardless of their mental or pschological abilities, or when people speak loudly or exaggerate their mannerisms when speaking to a blind person, even though that does not nothing to help the person understand. Most of the them, I believe that this is unintentional, but hurtful, nonetheless.

Hopefully that helped get you started on looking more into this topic! It's a great question that has plenty of real-world implications.

Coakes2 (talk) 02:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)Colleen

Draft
Hi I am Jessica and I am currently working on a correction of this article. You can find this in my talk page as well if wikipedia removes it once more. Gesund (talk) 05:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC) Gesund Gesund (talk) 05:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Update - I've moved the draft in question to User:Gesund/Communication accommodation theory. It should be safe from being removed there. This talk page is more for discussion between different editors about the article than for working on drafts. Hopefully this should all be sorted out now, but please do let me know if you have any questions. Regards —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 05:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Citation style
I've converted the references to sfn, and now things are looking a bit neater. For details of how the sfn works, have a look at Template:Sfn. And of course, feel free to ask me any questions about the citation style that you might have. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 08:19, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Young (1998)
The study by Young (1998) on Second Language Learners (mentioned in 4.1) is not cited in the 'References' section, and a brief internet search for it has been fruitless.

Could someone provide evidence of its existence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.221.72.173 (talk) 13:52, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

New Sources
Hello, I am currently editing this topic and chose some new sources to place in the Communication Accommodation Theory.

This source is intended to add onto the intergenerational communications section. I plan to use this source to build on the topic.
 * Bates, James S., and Alan C. Taylor. "Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships." The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies, edited by Constance L. Shehan, Wiley, 1st edition, 2016. Credo Reference, http://db19.linccweb.org/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/wileyfamily/grandparent_grandchild_relationships/0?institutionId=6086. Accessed 06 Oct 2017.

This source is what I intend to add to the case studies section. It would grant a more modern take on CAT's use.
 * Chevalier, Bernadette A. M., et al. “Investigating Strategies Used by Hospital Pharmacists to Effectively Communicate with Patients during Medication Counselling.” Health Expectations, vol. 20, no. 5, 2017, pp. 1121–1132., doi:10.1111/hex.12558.

This source will officially connect CAT with SAT's convergence and divergence.
 * "Perspective Taking, Adaptation, and Coordination." 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook, edited by William F. Eadie, vol. 1, SAGE Publications, 2009, pp. 119-127. 21st Century Reference Series. Gale Virtual Reference Library, db19.linccweb.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=lincclin_pbcc&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCX3208100025&it=r&asid=5a33d2ebd75721c689330a6c094e1fce. Accessed 6 Oct. 2017.

This source is a modern take on CAT through an author and Howard Giles, the developer of the theory.
 * Gallois, Cindy, and Howard Giles. “Communication Accommodation Theory.” The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 2015, pp. 1–18., doi:10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi066. — Preceding unsigned comment added by T15311327 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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