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Comm Theory - Symbolic Convergence

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dramatizing message   imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events; creative interpretations of there-and-then  
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fantasy chain   a symbolic explosion of lively agreement within a group in response to a member's dramatizing message  
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fantasy   the creative and imaginative shared interpretation of events that fulfills a group's psychological or rhetorical needs  
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fantasy theme   content of the fantasy that has chained out within a group; SCT's basic unit of analysis  
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symbolic cue   an agreed-upon trigger that sets off group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy  
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fantasy type   a cluster of related fantasy themes; greater abstractions incorporating several concrete fantasy themes that exist when shared meaning is taken for granted  
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symbolic convergence   two or more private symbol words incline toward each other, come more closely together, or even overlap; group consciousness, cohesiveness  
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rhetorical vision   a composite drama that catches up large groups of people into a common symbolic reality  
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fantasy theme analysis   a type of rhetorical criticism used to detect fantasy themes and rhetorical visions; the interpretive methodology of SCT  
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