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Symbolic Convergence Theory

Ernest Bormann

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Originally a theory of organizational communication. Bormann noticed the use of storytelling and their use of structuring reality. In times of stress people create crazier stories.

  • Stories structure reality
    • called these stories “Fantasy themes”
  • Technique: “fantasy theme analysis” to uncover “rhetorical vision”
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What is a conversation?

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A series of messages in the process of making meaning, making relationships and social worlds. It is a matter of coordinating meanings and messages.

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Constituitive View of com

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Communications is….

  • Comm as an action (speech acts)
  • constructs identities
  • makes relationships
  • Makes social worlds
  • fateful and consequential
  • invites the question –> What are we making with out communication?”
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The Coordinated Management Of Meaning - Barnett Pearce , Vernon Cronen

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We try to coordinate meanings with others.
How conversation create social worlds. 
World view II
Social constructionist 
Somewhat nontraditional
CMM is a collection of "heuristics"
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Deontic Logic

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Different people have different versions of their Deontae logic based on their social worlds.
Internalized logic of what you ought/ought not do.

Ex. Discouraged vs not allowed to do in class.

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Rules

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Constitutive

Regulative

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Bifurcation Points

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What you do in a moment is fateful and consequential. ( like looking back on a convo and realizing what you could or should have said.)

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Hierarchy Model

“Your a jerk” -> joke -> this is our normal banter -> This is a long standing friendship -> I’m a friendly person who enjoys fun ->A norm in this group is to engage in playful insults.

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Content-> Speech act-> Episode (named communication events)-> Relationships -> Autobiography -> Cultural patterns

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A practical CMM tool

Writing the rules

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  • Making the implicit, explicit
  • Taking all the assumptions and examining them directly
  • look for coordination or lack thereof
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Force/Logical force

Prefigurative
Practical
Contextual
Implicative
Reflexive
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What causes an action? What causes someone to enact a particular Regulative or constitutive rule?

Prefigurative Force
-Antecedent->Act

Practical Force
-Act-> Consequent

Contextual Force
-Pressure from hierarchy of meaning.

Implicative Force
- Pressure to transform contexts and change definitions

Reflexive Force
- A “metaperspective”. From an awareness of the game, a motivation to transform communication

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Unwanted Repetitive Patterns

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Episodes of conflict that arise over and over again, where the participants seem powerless to break the cycle.

  • may or may not be about the same topic but there is something about it that follows the same pattern.
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Unwanted Repetitive Patterns

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  • Strong link between act and antecedent (pre figurative force)
  • Strong link between act and autobiography (Personal identity)
  • Perception of a narrow range of alternative acts.
  • Weak link between act and consequences (little use of practical force)
  • Reflexive relationship between episode and relationship (looped)

(Reflexivity - cause and effect begin to become blurred)

-Strong contextual force