Communication Accommodation Theory
1. Can you think of a time when you found another’s divergence in speech style
delightful or another’s convergence distressing?
2. To what extent is it possible to interact with another person and not have
age, gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation, religious commitment, or political ide-
ology be salient when you know that one or more of these differs from your own?
3. In what way might you overaccommodate to the stereotypical image you hold
of opposite-sex communication behavior?
4. As you read about the actions and reactions of young people cited from
intergenerational research, with which strategies and responses do you identify?
Which do you believe are uncharacteristic of you?
