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CMM
Comm Theory - Coordinated Management of Meaning
Term | Definition |
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transmission model | picturing communication as a transfer of meaning by a source of sending a message through a channel to a receiver. Source-->Message-->Channel-->Receiver |
CMM | theory that looks directly at communication process and what it's doing. |
Communication perspective | an ongoing focus on how communication makes our social worlds. |
social constructionists | curious participants in a pluralistic world who believe that persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create. |
LUUUUTT | 1) lived stories; 2) unknown stories; 3) untold stories; 4) unheard stories; 5) untellable stories; 6) story telling; 7) stories told |
logical force | the moral pressure or sense of obligation a person feels to respond in a given way to what someone else has just said or done ("I had no choice") |
coordination | people collaborating in an attempt to bring into being their vision of what is necessary, noble, and good, and to preclude the enactment of what they fear, hate, or despise. |
first claim | our communication creates our social worlds |
second claim | the stories we tell differ from the stories we live |
third claim | we get what we make |
fourth claim | get the pattern right, create better outcomes |
bifurcation point | a critical point in a conversation where what one says next will affect the unfolding pattern of interaction and potentially take it in a different direction. |
mindfulness | the presence or awareness of what participants are making in the midst of their own conversation. |
dialogic communication | conversation in which parties remain in the tension between holding their own perspective while being profoundly open to the other |
narrow ridge | a metaphor of I-Thou living in the dialogic tension between relativism and rigid absolutism |
I-It relationship | we treat the other person as a thing to be used, an object to be manipulated; lacks mutuality; high levels of deceit |
I-Thou relationship | we regard our partner as the very one we are; viewed as created in the image of God & resolve to treat him/her as a valued end rather than a means to our own end - can only do this through dialogue (ethical communication) |