When I Call you Up and you're not there: Application of Communication Accommodation Theory to Telephone Answering Machine Messages
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/10570319609374552
Abstract
This investigation extends Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) to an everyday situation in which non‐simultaneous, temporally limited, and less information rich communication occurs. Specifically, this study explores whether callers converge to structural (script and message features) and relational (verbal immediacy cues) message aspects found in recorded answering machine messages. After comparing recorded answering machine messages and caller messages, we found that callers exhibited greater convergence to relational than to structural aspects. Both female and male callers converged with levels of immediacy in answering machine messages. Implications for future research in CAT are outlined.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Western Journal of Communication, v. 60, issue 4, p. 310-336
Scholar Commons Citation
Buzzanell, Patrice M.; Burrell, Nancy A.; Stafford, R. Shane; and Berkowitz, Sandra, "When I Call you Up and you're not there: Application of Communication Accommodation Theory to Telephone Answering Machine Messages" (1996). Communication Faculty Publications. 779.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/779
