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-The process of an individual adapting their verbal and non-verbal patterns of interaction to closely resemble the behaviors of his or her interlocutor
-Response latency, self-disclosure, head nodding/facial affect, and posture are all considered behaviors
-Most Common: Want to know other person's background or attraction
-The greater the want for social approval the greater the liklihood of convergence
-Underaccomodation/maintenance: no effort
-Overaccomodation: overly compensate
-Sensory
-Dependency
-Intergroup
-Indexical and symbolic dissociation
-Explicit propositional nonalignment
-Physical absense: abrasive humor, verbal abuse, and interactional dissolution
Cardiff DJ Case Study
-Shifted dialects
-Mimicry: Positive or negative?
-Intentions?
-A speaker embraces the differences with whom they are communicating with
-Want to keep an identity with a reference group
-CAT began as a speech theory in 1971
-People from different cultural backgrounds would change their choice of language, accent, dialect, and paralinguistic features
-Figured out that depending on how individuals related to another person's speech, it would determine their behaviors during the conversation
-Giles and colleagues ran into some trouble figuring out the motives and accuracy of a person's accommodation
-This led to the formation of CAT including both verbal and non-verbal behaviors during social interaction
“Starting with the creation of social relations, the social appreciation has been deeply valued – the human essence has changed and we need to see this fact naturally: the human being as a social being is concentrated on the exterior; in substance, he acquires the vital feeling only by the way he perceives what others think about him” -Neumann
-Communication Accomodation Theory named in 1987
-Social psychologist Howard Giles
-Reasoning: Why when people first meet each other do they tend to change their persona?
-Accomodation: "The constant movement toward or away from others by changing your communicative behavior."
-Main Point: CAT Strategies and application
-Giles' and Bourhis study
-Only 26% of Welsh citizens could speak national language at the time in 1977
-"Dying language with dismal future"
-Outcome: Greater group membership
-Convergence (lexical repetition) was in fact a crucial aspect in learning a 2nd language!
-Study done by Swedish Professors Jens Allwood and Elizabeth Alsén at the University of Götenberg in 1986
-Study tested convergence between language learner and Target Language Speaker (TLS)
-Test Subjects: Swedes, Latin Americans, and Finnish
-Main Purpose: Why do humans want to converge in conversation?
Additional Questions
-Is there "lexical convergence" in the learning of a 2nd language?
-Power relations and ethical considerations?