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Title: New Directions For, and Panaceas Arising From, Communication Accommodation Theory

New Directions For, and Panaceas Arising From, Communication Accommodation Theory

by Howard Giles (Volume editor) David E. Markowitz (Volume editor) David E. Clementson (Volume editor)
©2025 Textbook X, 240 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Language as Social Action, Volume 26

Summary

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) explains and predicts when, how, and why different people engage in conversational adjustments with others (or not), as well as recipients’ responses to them. CAT has been studied with many methods across numerous languages, cultures, groups, disciplines, and contexts as well as with non-human species. This, besides journal special issues, is the third book devoted to CAT advancements.
A 2023 journal issue of Language Sciences commemorated the theory’s 50th anniversary. Yet since, a plethora of studies and theoretical refinements have exploded onto the scene. Herein, these include sojourning, AI, safety in industries, policing crowd protests, metacognition, and biological underpinnings of CAT, underscoring the timeliness of this volume. With new vistas, this volume enhances CAT’s status as, arguably, the most robust framework for understanding interpersonal and intergroup adjustments in communication across new technologies.

Details

Pages
X, 240
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781636678313
Language
English
Keywords
Communication theory language and the social world interpersonal relations cross-cultural and intergroup relations health communication sociolinguistics social psychology Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. X, 240 pp., 6 b/w ill., 4 tables.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Howard Giles (Volume editor) David E. Markowitz (Volume editor) David E. Clementson (Volume editor)

Howard Giles is Distinguished Research Professor in Communication at UC Santa Barbara. He Is recipient of numerous Honors, Fellowships (e.g., Royal Society of Medicine) & Awards, including 3 book Awards & 3 Awards named after him and Inaugural Productivity Award (2000) from ICA (of which he is Past President), & Founding Editor of two journals. David M. Markowitz is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. He uses language patterns to infer what people are experiencing psychologically. In 2022, he was selected as a "Rising Star" of the Association for Psychological Science. He received his PhD in Communication from Stanford University. David E. Clementson is an associate professor in Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He is recipient of two Top Paper awards at ICA and the Best Paper Award from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University.

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