For today’s blog over communication accommodation, I decided to make my blog on my old teammate Kristy Wallace. Kristy was from Australia originally and played with us my freshman year. When I came here her accent was so strong, you could barely understand her calling out the plays on the court. In order for us to be great either we had to zero in on only her voice or she had to make it to where we understood her. Over the course of the year the team started noticing that she started talking like us a little more. She used to talk like us jokingly but it became natural towards the end of the season.

In the article it gave an example about communication accommodation and how it works. Griffin et. al. defines communication accommodation as, “changing communication behavior in a way that reduces social distance,” (423). In the example that was given in the article, Griffin et. al. states, “he noticed his accent changed depending upon where he was,” (423). On the following page, Griffin et. al. defines convergence as, “a strategy by which you adapt your communication behavior to become more similar to someone else,” (424).

There were so many more quotes in the article that could have went along with my scenario but these connected so well. In the first quote he defined communication accommodation and that just supported the simple fact that the situation that happened had a scientific name for it. The second quote was a great comparison from the situation in the article to the situation that happened to my team and I. Depending upon who Kristy was talking to she would sound more like them, and we thought it was pretty neat. Finally, the last quote shows another definition that connected to our team and our struggles at the beginning of the season. If she didn’t start to renunciate the way we do, we would have struggled all season.

freshman year team! kristy is #4