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