Compare accommodation, convergence and overaccommodation. Which of these communication strategies foster improved intercultural connections?
What will be an ideal response?
- Accommodation, convergence and overaccommodation are strategies for changing how we communicate with those who are different from us.
- Accommodation is a process through which people adjust their language and style of speaking toward the people with whom they are communicating. When speakers shift their language or nonverbal behaviors toward each other's way of communicating, they are engaging in convergence. Overaccommodation is an exaggerated form of accommodation.
- Both accommodation and convergence show respect by adjusting language and style of speaking toward the people with whom we are communicating. Both of these usually result in positive reactions.
- Overaccommodation means going too far, perhaps by changing your language based on incorrect or stereotypical notions of another group. This does not foster mutual respect between cultures.
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What will be an ideal response?
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