Communication accommodation theory elaborates the human tendency to adjust their behaviour while interacting. The reason behind this behaviour is explained as to control the social differences between the interactants.

Howard Giles ' communication accommodation theory (CAT), "seeks to explain and predict when, how, and why individuals engage in interactional adjustments with others,” [1] such as a person changing their accent to match the individual they are speaking with.

2023年9月18日 · Communication accommodation theory (CAT) is a communication theory that provides a framework for explaining and predicting how individuals change the ways they communicate to create, maintain, or decrease social distance (Dragojevic et al., 2015).

2023年9月1日 · Communication accommodation theory (CAT) seeks to explain and predict when, how, and why individuals engage in interactional adjustments with others, as well as recipients’ inferences, attributions, and evaluations of, and responses to, …

Communication Accommodation Theory is one way to explain how people of different cultures are constantly adapting their communication styles either in converging, diverging, or over accommodating styles to people in multiple contexts.

2015年12月1日 · Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) is a general theoretical framework of both interpersonal and intergroup communication. It seeks to explain and predict why, when, and how people adjust...

Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) provides a wide-ranging framework aimed at predicting and explaining many of the adjustments individuals make to create, main- tain, or decrease social distance in interaction.

2016年10月23日 · Communication accommodation theory (CAT) is a general theoretical framework for both interpersonal and intergroup communication. It seeks to explain and predict why, when, and how people adjust their communicative behavior during social interaction (including mediated contact), and what social consequences might result from such adjustments.

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) provides a theoretical explanation of how and why individuals accommodate (adjust) to each other in both interpersonal and intergroup contexts. CAT explicates social, psychological, and communication processes to promote understanding of interpersonal and intergroup accommodation.

First introduced in 1971, Communication Accommodation Theory, which was known as Speech Accommodation Theory at the time, says that when humans talk to each other, they tend to change the way they talk to match the way the listener talks.