COMM 305 1st EditionLecture 12Outline of Last Lecture1. Answering questions d. Response: Immediacy Example2. Communication Accommodation Theory a. Three Patterns: convergence, Divergence, and Maintenance b. Pattern Distinctions c. Explanations of Convergence and DivergenceOutline of Current Lecture2A. Convergence, Divergence, and Maintenance 2B. Pattern Distinctions2C. Explanations of convergence and Divergence3. Speech Code Theory Current Lecture107 and 108 are removed from readings examined on. We will still have them available. They may be valuable. There won't be study guide questions on them. In communication we try to be cooperative. Lying doesn't work without the cooperative principle. You may have to say prove it if you didn't believe them. We believe people are being truthful. We try to be accommodating. Someone may sing the star spangled banner. Someone asks you about it. You don't say it went poorly but you say it in an indirect way. Communication accommodation theory tries to explain the same thing and looks at when people are accommodating. If a doctor can adapt there messages then patience are more likely to take the doctors suggestions. Senders and receivers online favor language being used by the other. We mimic each other when the language is being used by the other.2A. Convergence, Divergence, and Maintenance Convergence - pattern we see most often - accommodation Documented with many accommodations theories like how fast people talk, pauses, jokes, headnodding, posture. A growing similarity with interaction partners. Convergence is similar to reciprocation. Divergence - looks at differences between interactions. Welsh speakers interviewed by English man. As the English man was derogatory his accent got stronger. Maintenance is stability. Breakfast Club Movie ClipWe saw one converting towards the principle by standing up. He says yes sir. In the way they come in you see convergence. People facing forward. People miring each other. The rebel enters and is quite diverting. The nerd tries to converge towards the rebel. He takes his jacket off at the same time. The nerd uses bad words. The rebel stares. 2B. Pattern Distinctions Upward versus downward Upward- Saying yes sir. Downward - converging towards bad language Full versus partial versus hyper Compensation means something that contradicts the expectancy violation. Close to full convergence between the jock and the preppy girl. Incomplete patterns of convergence - not everyone confronts the weird girl nail biting. Hyper convergence - hyper accommodation between the staff and the older people at a nursinghome. The staff used baby talk and spoke loudly. They are doing hyper accommodation. It is so over the top it is ineffective. When someone doesn't speak your language you may talk louder. That is hyper convergence. Unimodal versus multimodal We can converge in one way and not in others. Some behaviors are converging. Others are diverging. Women converge on some male behaviors but not all. Converge on the kind of language use and the use of interruptions but not on others like laughter.COMM 305 1st Edition Convergence and divergence don't have to be complete. Symmetrical versus asymmetrical The actor both converged each other. Both actors acted different from each other like the principle and rebel. Subjective versus objective The nerd tells an awkward joke. Outside observers can make sense into what is happening. We can think of whether or not we are converting or diverging. Subjective sense of accommodation. They asked people there perception. In objective you have a sense of how it is going. You can think if you are accommodating. You may think it is going great. Your roommate may be observing and see that the conversation isn'tgoing well and the other person looks uncomfortable. 2C. Explanations of convergence and Divergence 1. Natural tendency to accommodate We see people converging most often. 2. Attraction We converge towards people we are attracted to both physically and people we want to belike. 3. Power/social status We converge towards people with higher power and higher social status. Unless we are attempting to assert our own power and authority and status.The rebel is diverging. The nerd is converging. 4. Social identity Most important. We use convergence and divergence to express our social identity. We most share that we are aggies. We express our social identity by converging towards what we think it means to be an aggie. At a sporting event to express we are aggies we stand, whoop,yell, yell practice, wear maroon. These are ways we converge. People may hyper converge. We diverge to show desperation - 2%er. To think about social identity think about culture. Culture plays out in our accommodation. This theory is aimed at looking how people of different cultures converge.How is culture included in expectancy violation theory?Cultural norms influence how we react. The theory tries to explain a pattern that goes across cultures. Speech Code TheoryDifferent approach to explaining how culture helps us answer the question of how we know what things mean in our interaction. Doesn't make sense of all cultures but particular cultures. An Emic versus Etic approach is if you are trying to explain one culture versus all cultures. 1A. Emic vs. Etic Apprqches Etic is approached outside of cultures. It is general. The two theories we have discussed are Edic. Etic looks across cultures. Emic is a few letters from in - inside. Emic is focused inside cultures. How we respond to something is universal - Etic concern. The theory is concerned about describing what is universal. Speech code theory is taking an Emic