Under-accommodating
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 present participle and gerund of under-accommodate form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Insufficiently accommodating.
"The application of CAT to intergenerational interaction has shown that younger adults perceive older adults' talk as under-accommodating, i.e. extensively diverging from the interlocutor's style, topics introduced, and their own as over-accommodating, that is, as converging to the interlocutor's style and to viewpoint that the recipient will presumably share (cf. e.g. Ylänne-McEwen 1999)."
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More examples"The application of CAT to intergenerational interaction has shown that younger adults perceive older adults' talk as under-accommodating, i.e. extensively diverging from the interlocutor's style, topics introduced, and their own as over-accommodating, that is, as converging to the interlocutor's style and to viewpoint that the recipient will presumably share (cf. e.g. Ylänne-McEwen 1999)."
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