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WHAT IS IT?

Communication Accommodation Theory deals with accommodating others to certain communication interactions. It can be used in the workplace, school, or just having a conversation with other people. People change the way they speak to understand others better to accommodate to their communication needs.

WHO USES IT YOU ASK?

Howard Giles is one of the main people who uses this theory. He's a professor at the University of Santa Barbra!

Howard Giles… Aw isn’t that nice?

WHO ELSE? RACE

Doctors

Workplace

SCHOOL

WHAT’S THE POINT YOU ASK?

The point of Communication Accommodation Theory is to be able to communicate with others affectively! Without it, problems with language barriers, age barriers, or understanding people clearly can be a result of failed communication accommodation. I look better than you little

boy!!!

I CAN RUN FASTER THAN YOU SLOW

POKE!!!

CRAZY

PERSONI talk with my hands

CRITICISMResearchers argue that people accommodate to others on purpose. So you mean sometimes people don’t accommodate others because they don’t want to???

YES SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Which causes problems with

communication

WHAT ELSE YOU ASK?

We choose how to communicate! SO ACCOMMODATE OTHERS TODAY! It makes the world a

happy place!!!