Showing papers by "Howard Giles published in 1990"
TL;DR: In this paper, a communication accommodation theory is proposed as an appropriate interactional model able to specify social support in action, its contextual and motivational antecedents, and its health outcomes.
Abstract: Although interpersonal communication lies at the heart of social support processes, there has been very little recourse in this literature to the models and methods of the language and communication sciences. Communication accommodation theory is proposed here as an appropriate interactional model able to specify social support in action, its contextual and motivational antecedents, and its health outcomes. The model is related explicitly to themes in the rapidly expanding literature on elderly communication and intergenerational talk.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating roles of individual cognitions as a complement to sociostructural analyses are discussed, leading to a set of predictive propositions which, it is argued, will elaborate the psychosocial climate under which different degrees of group level maintenance on the one hand, and the processing of majority-minority encounters and the kinds of interactive strategies within them on the other, will prevail.
Abstract: This paper is an attempt to articulate basic questions in this fragmented field in pursuit of a more interdisciplinary framework, one which recognises the important mediating roles of individual cognitions as a complement to sociostructural analyses. As an untapped resource, there is an ever‐increasing number of, admittedly diverse, theoretical models in the sociopsychological areas of ethnolinguistic differentiation, ethnic language attitudes, second language learning, intercultural accommodation, communication breakdown, ethnic values, beliefs about talk, and so forth which are relevant for a more rounded understanding of minority language situations. These will be integrated into a framework leading to a set of predictive propositions which, it is argued, will elaborate the psychosocial climate under which different degrees of group level maintenance on the one hand, and the processing of majority‐minority encounters and the kinds of interactive strategies within them on the other, will prevai...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the belief that intergenerational compliance gaining gained by the young and the old in a role play situation adapted to a 2X 2 X 2 factorial design: young respondents envisaged themselves either as a young person or as a typical 70-year old, and the imagined compliance target was 21 versus 70 years of age.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to enhance our understanding of beliefs that the young hold about influence communication between the young the old. Thus, beliefs about intergenerational compliance gaining were explored in a role play situation adapted to a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design: young respondents envisaged themselves either as a young person or as “typical 70‐year‐old,”; the imagined compliance target was 21 versus 70 years of age, and the request was either legitimate or illegitimate. Dependent measures were formed from likelihood‐of‐use estimates and from open‐ended descriptions of influence strategies. The results showed that greater pressure to comply was anticipated when sources were older than younger, and that both age groups were expected to be more direct when the target was a member of the outgroup rather than a peer. These and other findings are interpreted in terms of age stereotyping and intergenerational accommodative differences.
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