"3rd person response" as a form of overaccommodation : An example of inappropiate communication behaviour towards foreign and physically handicapped people

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  • 聞いたのはこちらなのに… : 外国人と身体障害者に対する「第三者返答」をめぐって
  • キイタ ノ ワ コチラ ナノニ ガイコクジン ト シンタイ ショウガイシャ ニ タイスル ダイサンシャ ヘントウ オ メグッテ

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Communicative behaviour can often be based on stereotyped expectations about the interlocutor's competence rather than his/her actual competence and therefore may become inappropiate, as defined by the term overaccommodation in communication accommodation theory. Based on field studies conducted on a) foreigners who can obviously be identified as such by their physical features and b) wheel-chair users, this paper identifies a type of overaccommodation behaviour termed here as 3^<rd> person response: a person A addressed by an unknown person B ignores B and responds to an unknown third person C accompanying B, due to nonlanguage factors such as the physical appearance of B. Results confirm both of the observed groups are likely to become the subject of 3^<rd> person response and support the hypothesis that this kind of communication behaviour is largely determined by psychological factors such as a person's past experience with foreigners and the stereotypes he/she may have concerning their language ability, as well as misconceptions about "disability" due to a lack of communication experience with wheel-chair users.

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