Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT), developed by Howard Giles in the early 1970s, explains how speakers adjust their language and communication styles during interactions to either converge (become more similar) or diverge (become more different) from their conversation partners, which helps facilitate or hinder linguistic understanding across different languages and cultures.
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convergence theory# linguisticAdded:
Welcome back to my channel, UGC NET must be targeted. So, we are um we are in topic of convergence. So, we uh now we are continuing with this topic from the importance of convergent convergence.
So, convergence help linguistic understand. And this is the second part of this topic.
So, guys, uh convergence help linguistic understand.
If you need maybe a Marathi query what to do with query uh Marathi the language Marathi say opposite query language what that is say I don't know Marathi what that is to every day we will listen then to the same as Marathi language.
I see by language dual language dual language with that we have or uh culture interaction with that with me to come and say push to them and say push to them push to them to a dual culture with them and say push to them.
And now who is the who is the theorist who who had given this theory?
The theory is a convergence and divergence in linguistic is primarily associated with the Howard Howard Giles.
Please note down this name. This is very important. And who uh he is a he was a professor of communication who introduced him in the early 1970.
Known as the communication accommodation theory. This is this name is the CAT CAT communication accommodation theory.
Please note down and this is the last point of this theory.
So, next video will be there divergence to next theory and see. Okay?
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