'What are they saying to me?': Perceptions of Accommodation and Nonaccommodation of Spanish-speaking Latin American Immigrants in the Canadian Workplace
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Abstract
Abstract: Guided by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT; Giles et al. 1987), this qualitative study documents the perceptions of Spanish-speaking Latin American immigrants regarding the communicative behaviors that native speakers make when interacting with them in the Canadian workplace. The findings of this phenomenological study resulted from a thematic analysis of 24 semi-structured interviews. Participants gave their accounts of those communicative behaviors by native speakers that they considered helpful to facilitate interactions and enhance their relations (accommodation). Participants also shared examples of nonaccommodative instances where they perceived that their native-speaking peers did not adjust or sufficiently adjust their communicative behaviors (underaccommodation) or engaged in a communicative behaviour that went beyond what was necessary for the interaction (overaccommodation). Based on these findings, this study offers insights into those behaviors and practices that could contribute to constructive interactions between nonnative and native speakers in the workplace. Résumé: Guidée par la théorie de l'accommodation de la communication (CAT ; Giles et al. 1987), cette étude qualitative documente les perceptions des immigrants latino-américains hispanophones concernant les comportements de communication que les locuteurs natifs adoptent lorsqu'ils interagissent avec eux sur le lieu de travail canadien. Les résultats de cette étude phénoménologique résultent d'une analyse thématique de 24 entretiens semi-directifs. Les participants ont donné leur avis sur les comportements communicatifs de locuteurs natifs qu'ils considéraient comme utiles pour faciliter les interactions et améliorer leurs relations (accommodation). Les participants ont également partagé des exemples de cas non accommodants où ils ont perçu que leurs pairs de langue maternelle n'avaient pas ajusté ou suffisamment ajusté leurs comportements de communication (sous-accommodation) ou s'étaient engagés dans un comportement de communication qui allait au-delà de ce qui était nécessaire pour l'interaction (sur-accommodation). Sur la base de ces résultats, cette étude offre un aperçu des comportements et des pratiques qui pourraient contribuer à des interactions constructives entre locuteurs non natifs et natifs sur le lieu de travail.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".