Publications

Publication details [#27711]

Jones, Elizabeth, Cynthia Gallois, Michelle Barker and Victor J. Callan. 1994. Evaluations of interactions between students and academic staff: Influence of communication accomodation, ethnic group, and status. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 13 (2) : 158–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | evaluation | interaction | power | solidarity

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study, which tests the Communication Accommodation Theory, compares the influence of (non)accommodative interactant behavior, social status as a student or lecturer and ethnic group bias, on evaluations of power and solidarity in interaction.The findings show the complexity and the importance of the context on reactions to communication accommodation.