Answer:
Communication accommodation theory
Explanation:
Communication accommodation theory, developed by Howard Giles, the professor of communication at the University of California, is a theory of communication that explains the adjustments people make while communicating with others. This includes the changes in people's behavior caused by their tendency to adjust their communication to their partner and the degree to which people perceive their partner as appropriately adjusting to them. Made adjustments can be noticed in both verbal communication and gestures. All of this depends on situational, social, cultural and relational contexts.
Answer:
The world loathsome in the excerpt implies "repugnant" or "disgusting".
Thus, we can infer from the excerpt that the prison where The Count of Monte Cristo was jailed was brimming with animals that are considered to be repugnant, like cockroaches or rats, and there were so many of them, that the Count had gotten used to their noise somehow, being able to sleep among them.