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8 - Accommodating Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2016

Howard Giles
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Communication Accommodation Theory
Negotiating Personal Relationships and Social Identities across Contexts
, pp. 152 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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