Communication Accommodation Theory

By J. Goodwin. Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, 2019

391 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A lack of face-to-face interactions affects society while digital influences on the world create and sustain communications characterized by limited feedback, incomplete information, tentative connections, and misunderstandings. Thousands of digital messages lack the full communication components—sender-receiver-feedback—creating barriers to communication completion. The ability to adapt to the receiver and the medium is enhanced in face-to-face communication, as defined within communication accommodation theory (CAT). CAT allows all parties to emphasize or minimize differences in verbal and non-verbal conversations.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Interactive Visual Grounding of Referring Expressions for Human-Robot Interaction (2018, result): “This is consistent with the psycholinguistic phenomenon of linguistic accommodation [8], in which participants in a conversation adjust their language style and converge to a common one.”