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1 Accommodation theory: Communication, context, and consequence

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Basic concepts and strategies

1.3. Accommodative motives and consequences

Convergence and integration

Caveats

Divergence and intergroup processes

1.4. Further distinctions

Psychological versus linguistic accommodation

Cognitive organization versus identity maintenance functions

1.5. Discourse attuning

1.6. Attuning and health care

1.7. Epilogue

2 Audience accommodation in the mass media

2.1. Mass communicators and their audience

Feedback and isolation

Professionalism and stereotyping

2.2. Mass communication and accommodation theory

Accommodative processes

The audience accommodates

2.3. Audience design

The differentiated audience

Response and initiative

2.4. Radio in Auckland

Here is the news

The language sample

Characterizing the audience

2.5. The linguistic analysis

Negative contraction: Audience status

Consonant cluster reduction: Audience solidarity

Cluster reduction: Converging on a station style

3 Accommodation on trial: Processes of communicative accommodation in courtroom interaction

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Research on courtroom interaction

3.3. Accommodative processes in court trials: some earlier findings

3.4. Interactive accommodation and the exchange of initiatives and responses

3.5. On the relation between levels of accommodation

3.6. Discussion

4 Accommodation in medical consultations

4.1. Introduction

4.2. A critique of theory and research on doctor-patient communication

4.3. Communication accommodation theory

4.4. Accommodation in doctor-patient interactions

4.5. Patients' characteristics and accommodation

Patients' anxiety

Doctor-patient relational history

Patients' education and social class

Patients' sex

4.6. Dysfunctional accommodation in doctor-patient interactions

Divergence

Misperceived convergence

4.7. Accommodation and medical outcomes

Convergence

Complementarity

4.8. Directions for future research

Consistency vs. adaptation in doctor-patient interaction

Patients' accommodation to doctors

Patients' responses to doctors' accommodation

4.9. A final comment

5 Accommodation and mental disability

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Disability syndromes

5.3. Unintentional underaccommodation

Information problems

Topical problems

Problems with indirectness

5.4. Discourse attuning processes in reaction to communicative nonsuccess

Question strategies

Response strategies

5.5. Conclusions

6 Accommodation in therapy

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Language, accommodation, and psychotherapy

6.3. Description of the study

6.4. Findings of the study

The second variable: Subject-verb nonconcord

The third variable: Deletion of initial /w/

The fourth variable: Intrusive /t/

6.5. Accommodation at the discourse level

6.6. Conclusion

Appendix

7 Accommodation in native-nonnative interactions: Going beyond the "what" to the "why" in second-language research

7.1. Introduction

7.2. CAT as a theory of L2 variation

7.3. CAT-related research on L2 interactional variation

7.4. Foreigner talk (L1 variation when talking to L2 speakers)

Native speaker's interactional goals

Native speaker's encoded strategies

Normative speaker's decoding of the native speaker's strategies

8 Interethnic accommodation: The role of norms

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Norms and immigrants

8.3. Conceptualizations of norms

8.4. Norms and CAT

8.5. An inquiry into communication norms in Australia

Norms about content: What should you say?

Norms about nonverbal behavior: How should you say it?

Motives: Why do you say it?

8.6. Conclusions

9 Organizational communication and accommodation: Toward some conceptual and empirical links

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Aspects of speech accommodation theory

9.3. Organizational communication and accommodation

Basic elements and themes of organizational communication

Basic theories of organizational communication

9.4. Organizational communication in bilingual settings: Anempirical study

Ethnicity and language use

Language skills and language use

LWE and accommodation

9.5. Conclusions

Index