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Informationen zum Autor Howard Giles is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Honorary Professor in the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Klappentext A seminal account of how, when, and why we modify telling features of our communication across a rich array of situations. Zusammenfassung A seminal account of how! when! and why we modify telling features of our communication - face-to-face and digitally - across a rich array of situations. It examines this! and critically so! through an impressive array of methods! languages and applied contexts! and it also discusses the social consequences of various accommodative-nonaccommodative stances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. The social origins of CAT Howard Giles; 2. Theoretical perspectives on interpersonal adjustments in language and communication Jessica Gasiorek; 3. Accommodative strategies as core of the theory Marko Dragojevic, Jessica Gasiorek and Howard Giles; 4. Methods of CAT inquiry: quantitative studies Jordan Soliz and Gretchen Bergquist; 5. The 'dark side' of CAT: nonaccommodation Jessica Gasiorek; 6. CAT and talk in action Cindy Gallois, Ann Weatherall and Howard Giles; 7. Intergroup accommodation, social categories, and identities Nicholas A. Palomares, Howard Giles, Jordan Soliz and Cindy Gallois; 8. Accommodating health Bernadette M. Watson, David G. Hewett and Liz Jones; 9. CAT on trial Augusto Gnisci, Howard Giles and Jordan Soliz; 10. CAT integrations and new framework developments Cindy Gallois, Jessica Gasiorek, Howard Giles and Jordan Soliz; Index.