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TSL1044 Language, Culture and Society

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ACCOMMODATION THEORY

Irsalina Rachma Viramdani


Khusnen Khoirin Nada
The Founder
Howard Giles

Professor of linguistics and


psychology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Giles developed the theory
in 1973
Accommodation Theory

Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)


is the way the speaker adjusting speech, vocal
patterns, and/or gestures to accommodate
the interlocutor in a certain communication.
Purpose

People change the way they speak to be


better understand others to accommodate to
their communication needs
Downward
Convergence

Speech Upward
Convergence Convergence
Accommodation
Theory
Speech Mutual
Divergence Convergence
Speech Convergence
• Speech convergence is the way the speakers
move their speech closer toward each other
• There is a tendency for people to become
more alike in terms of linguistic, prosodic or
non-verbal features, including pronunciation,
utterance length, pauses, speech rates, vocal
intensities, as well as facial expressions and
the "intimacy of their self-disclosures"
Downward Convergence

Downward convergence occurs when people


in upper class (such as people with an RP)
toning down their way of speech to speak to
people in a lower-class
Upward Convergence

Upward convergence occurs when lower-class


people trying to eliminate some of the
stronger regional feature of their speech when
they speak to the upper class
Mutual Convergence

Mutual convergence occurs when the speaker


and the interlocutor adjust their speech
toward each other
Speech Divergence

Speech divergence is the ways in which both


speakers accentuate their verbal and non-
verbal differences
Conclusion
The point of Communication Accommodation
Theory is to be able to communicate with
others affectively. Without it, problems with
language barriers, age barriers, or
understanding people clearly can be a result
of failed communication accommodation

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