Abstract This Special Issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of communication
accommodation theory (CAT) in 2023, formerly known as speech accommodation theory …

The digital text traces left by computer-mediated communication (CMC) provide a new
opportunity to test theories of relational processes that were originally developed through …

This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on
Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses …

This article discusses a timely and recent domain of intergroup relations scholarship that
focuses on communication between police and the public—a domain we have previously …

In many communities, certain segments of the population do not have trust and confidence
in the police. These issues are particularly intense in some impoverished minority …

Patient-perpetrated workplace violence (WPV) in healthcare is common. Although
communication skills trainings are helpful, they may be strengthened by having a theoretical …

This experimental study, extending the communication accommodation theory and the
Communication Predicament of Disability Model, examined people with disabilities' …

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) has shown remarkable staying power. To
what can we attribute this? I suggest several reasons: first, the general phenomenon of …

Mode adoption is a term used primarily in pragmatics and linguistics which refers to
responses to verbal irony that: a.) converge with (or 'adopt') the humor frame and, b.) add a …

Grounded in communication accommodation theory, this study examined the association
between middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent …