This paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication
accommodation theory (CAT) for the study of patient-provider interaction. CAT's …

Abstract Studies on Communication Accommodation Theory has advanced rapidly in recent
years. Communication is an important part of human life and from the beginning of human …

Purpose This paper aims to extend the consideration of distributed leadership in health-care
settings. Leadership is typically studied from the classical notion of the place of single …

Foreign language teaching highlights the cultivation of the learners' communicative
competence, because the main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use the target …

The public has high expectations that hospitals will provide compassion, care, and extensive
support for both injured and uninjured disaster survivors. In the face of disasters like …

This Epilogue briefly reviews some themes present in this collection, and highlights its many
contributions. We then look beyond the contributions of the Special Issue papers to consider …

Research focused on understanding what enables or hinders health professionals to speak
up about a safety concern has been to date predominately atheoretical and speaker …

With deep roots in the social psychology of language, Howard Giles' communication
accommodation theory (CAT) is, perhaps, the foremost theory guiding theoretical and …

In this chapter, we review work that explores communication accommodation through talk,
using a variety of qualitative methods (see Gallois & Giles, 2015, for a recent review; see …

In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of communication accommodation theory.
Communication accommodation theory focuses on the communications adjustments …