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Communication Accommodation between Chinese and Australian Students and Academic Staff.

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Gallois, Cynthia; And Others – 1992

A study tested paths predicted by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) in the context of interactions between 105 Chinese and 283 Anglo-Australian students and 98 academic staff in situations of potential conflict. Videotapes of student-lecturer interactions in which speakers accommodated, over-accommodated, or under-accommodated were rated by…

Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Language Strategies in the Attribution of Blame for HIV and AIDS.

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Pittam, Jeffery; Gallois, Cynthia – Communication Monographs, 1997

Examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual Australian college students to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Finds that speakers blamed outgroups more than ingroups; blamed outgroups at higher levels of responsibility than ingroups; but did not use more justifications for ingroups. Notes overt…

Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis