Ceremonial encounters based on communication accommodation theory: An analysis on local television series

Today, together with the increasing importance of interpersonal communication, the communication harmony strategies that play a principal role in the order of interactions began to be analyzed in more detail. These communication harmony strategies are important for the individuals to maintain their self-respect or to repair their communication behaviors. The individuals form their communication harmony strategies by well-recognizing the person they communicate, i.e., by being aware of their subjective and objective individualism, and ensure their interaction orders. Order of interaction and communication harmony theory are closely related. Forming their own order of interactions at their own will is only possible through knowing their own communication strategies very well. Since order of interactions means continuous repetition of individual's own communication and attitudes and behaviors, it is observed that it is frequently repeated in individual's own ceremonial rituals, particularly in associative rituals among all transitional rituals. It is because the individual repeats the behaviors that he owns and knows, and minimizes the risk of self-corrosion by acting in a conformist manner, since he will be switching to a different period/phase for the first time. he receives support from communication harmony strategies while doing this. In this study, the dialogues of the main characters of popular TV series, Paramparça, Aşk Yeniden, Kara Para Aşk, Poyraz Karayel, Asla Vazgeçmem, which intensively refer to associative rituals, and which are considered to well-represent the compelling target group, were textualized and went through content analysis, and the scenes were described with the help of frame analysis by including some visual examples. Associative rituals were analyzed in five different categories as: private-time rituals, daily rituals, relationship-specific rituals, daily routines and tasks, sincerity/privacy/sexual intercourse rituals, and another category, social relationship rituals, which did not fit into any of these categories, and which created by the couples themselves, were included. In these categories, it was attempted to reveal which communication strategies were used the most by the characters. The results show findings that have never been found in previous studies, and thus, these evaluations and suggestions are expected to be of help to future studies and researchers.