PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Participant Observation, The Two Cultures, Speech Code
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Communication accommodation strategies: divergence strategy of accentuating the difference between yourself and another person, divergence. Cat"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of age-old stereotypes: self-handicapping for the elderly, a face-saving strategy that invokes age as a reason for not performing well, elderly talk reminds younger listeners that they are old. Divergence: maintenance persisting in your original communication style regardless of the communication behavior of the other, overaccommodation demeaning or patronizing talk, message simplification, or repetition. Listeners regard convergence as positive and divergence as negative. It is not important how the communicator converged or diverged, but how the other perceived the co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ator"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Liste(cid:374)ers (cid:449)ho i(cid:374)terpret (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e as a speaker"s desire to (cid:271)reak do(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)ultural (cid:271)arriers rea(cid:272)t favorably: there are benefits and costs to both convergent divergent strategies. Individualistic culture people look out for themselves and their immediate families; i-identity. Compromising conflict management by negotiation or bargaining; seeking a middle ground. Dominating (cid:272)o(cid:373)peti(cid:374)g to (cid:449)i(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) people"s i(cid:374)terests (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t.
