Exploring the Linguistic Accommodation in the University Students’ Speech.

Abstract

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) is a theory of conversation developed by the British psychologist Howard Giles since the early 1970s. This principle worries “the behavioral adjustments that humans make to attune their conversation to their accomplice and the extent to which humans understand their companion as it should be attuning to them.”1 The aim of this research is to know the reasons that make people modify (or accommodate) their way of talking with others. Accommodation is typically regarded to be between the message sender and the message receiver; however, the communicator moreover commonly comprises to a better audience- each a group of people that are looking at the interaction or society in general. Moreover, Accommodation can take the shape of either convergence or divergence. While convergence constitutes a linguistic, accommodative, manner in which a speaker modifies his/her personal speech to resemble extra carefully the addressee speech, divergence refers to a process in which a speaker linguistically moves in the opposite direction in order to make his/her speech sound more unlike that of the person (s)he is speaking to.