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The effect of non-native speaker status on the use of linguistic accommodation by native speakers of Japanese: Implications for communication accommodation theory.

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Title/Author:	The effect of non-native speaker status on the use of linguistic accommodation by native speakers of Japanese: Implications for communication accommodation theory./
Author:	Long, Christopher James.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3273.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3103941

The effect of non-native speaker status on the use of linguistic accommodation by native speakers of Japanese: Implications for communication accommodation theory.
Long, Christopher James.

The effect of non-native speaker status on the use of linguistic accommodation by native speakers of Japanese: Implications for communication accommodation theory. - 185 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3273.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2003.

The most significant development of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) (Coupland et al., 1988) has been the extension of the concept of "accommodation" to include non-imitative strategies (i.e., interpretability, discourse management, and interpersonal control). However, like its predecessor Speech Accommodation Theory (SAT) (Giles, 1973), CAT is based on Similarity-Attraction Theory (Byrne, 1969), which claims that people gain approval by imitating others. Thus, a remaining challenge for CAT is to incorporate alternative explanations for these new, non-imitative, accommodation strategies. This point is particularly relevant to analyses of situations that contain considerable non-imitative accommodation such as communication between native speakers (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) (e.g., Jones et al., 1999).Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The effect of non-native speaker status on the use of linguistic accommodation by native speakers of Japanese: Implications for communication accommodation theory.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3273.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2003.
520 $a The most significant development of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) (Coupland et al., 1988) has been the extension of the concept of "accommodation" to include non-imitative strategies (i.e., interpretability, discourse management, and interpersonal control). However, like its predecessor Speech Accommodation Theory (SAT) (Giles, 1973), CAT is based on Similarity-Attraction Theory (Byrne, 1969), which claims that people gain approval by imitating others. Thus, a remaining challenge for CAT is to incorporate alternative explanations for these new, non-imitative, accommodation strategies. This point is particularly relevant to analyses of situations that contain considerable non-imitative accommodation such as communication between native speakers (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) (e.g., Jones et al., 1999).
520 $a The current study investigates the effect of NNS status on NS use of non-imitative accommodation strategies. Twenty Japanese university students (10 male, and 10 female) conversed with a high-status (Western) and low-status (Asian) NNS. In a post-discussion questionnaire, they also rated their conversational partner on a number of attitudinal scales.
520 $a Paired t-test analyses of the data indicated that male and female NSs used more clarification per request with high-status NNSs and that female NSs used foreign lexicon as a clarification strategy more often with high-status NNSs. Female NSs also spoke longer and expressed a greater desire to work and develop a relationship with high-status NNSs. Male NSs, however, expressed a greater desire to work with low-status NNSs.
520 $a The findings support the main hypothesis of the study that NSs of Japanese are more attentive to the needs of high-status NNSs, but provide mixed support for the secondary hypothesis that NSs are more interested in high-status NNSs. I argue that, because men have a higher status than women in Japanese society, men feel less comfortable than women when placed in a low-status position (i.e., having to accommodate high-status interlocutor).
520 $a Furthermore, using Causal-Attribution Theory (Jones & Davis, 1965), I argue that speakers attempt to gain approval by facilitating the comprehension of their partner (via interpretability strategies) and by expressing interest in their partner (via discourse management strategies). This explanation accounts for the non-imitative nature of new CAT accommodation strategies and provides an alternative to Similarity-Attraction Theory.
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