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| Welsch social psychologist, now a professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara who champions communication accommodation. |
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| The constant movement toward and away from others by changing your communicative behavior |
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| A strategy through which you adapt your communication behavior is such a way as to become more similar to another person. |
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| A communication strategy of accentuating the difference between yourself and another person |
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| For the elderly, a face-saving strategy that invokes age as a reason for not performing well. |
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| Persisting in your original communication style regardless of the communication behavior of the other; similar to divergence; underaccommodation |
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| Demeaning or patronizing talk; excessive concern paid to vocal clarity or amplitude, message simplification, or repetition |
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| Communicators’ predisposition to focus on either their individual identity or group identity during a conversation. |
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| Group memberships and social categories that we use to define who we are |
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| Expectations about behavior that members of a community feel should (or should not) occur in particular situations |
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