Communication
Accommodation Theory
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Communication and Accommodation Theory: Speech Patterns and Gendered Language, Slides of Communication
Communication Accommodation Theory through various research studies. The theory focuses on how individuals adapt their speech to conform or diverge based on social context and cultural identities. One study examines the use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and its impact on communication. Another study investigates children's gendered language during middle childhood and how it is influenced by linguistic and social context.
What you will learn
- What are the findings of the studies on Communication Accommodation Theory?
- How does gendered language influence children during middle childhood?
- How does culture influence communication?
- What are morphosyntactic and phonological features in language?
- What is Communication Accommodation Theory?
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Communication
Accommodation Theory
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Convergents or Divergence?
Who conforms?
Who decides?
And what does it all mean?
Ok so there is a down side…
Social appropriateness + and - Norms And the consequences…
FACE it
Ya ya we know chapter 3… the “saving face”
Face concern dilemma
- Keeping the balance of individualism and collectivism
- Status
RESEARCHER
Who: Julie Sweetland
Where:Stanford University, Calif.
“AAVE”
It stands for African American Vernacular English
EXAMPLE SPEECH
PATTERNS
DELILAH SAYS, “ YOU KNOW
HOW VIKKI GETS DRUNK,
ALWAYS WANNA START
SOMETHIN, OR AT LEAST
ALWAYS END UP STARTIN
SOMETHIN.”
Results
MORPHOSYNTACTIC
FEATURES:
- Study of internal structure of words.
PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES:
- Sound system of a specific language
Researcher
Who: Kirsten Robertson Tamar Murachver
Where:
University of Otago
Purpose
This study is to examine children’s gendered language during middle childhood and how this is influenced by linguistic and social context.
Hypothesis 3: Older children would
accommodate more than younger children to the gender-preferential speech style of the experimenter.
Hypothesis 4: Boys with strong
stereotyped beliefs would accommodate less to the speech style of the experimenter than would boys who did not hold strong sex role beliefs.
Method
Participants
Experimenter speech style manipulation
Procedure
Coding