Meaning Flashcards
What is the transmission view?
-Limits us by focusing on only asking “is my message getting across?”
What is communication through the Constitutive View?
Communication is:
- Action (speech acts)
- constructs identities
- makes relationships
- makes social worlds
- fateful and consequential(do-over)
- invites the question: What are we making with our communication?
who created the coordinated management meaning theory (CMM) ?
W. Barnett Pearce
Vernon Cronen
What is CMM as a communication theory?
Worldview II
- subjectivist
- social constructionist
- somewhat nontraditional (heuristics)
How CMM conceptualizes communication?
- speech acts
- conversation
- daisy model
- social worlds
- deontic logic (obligation)
- rules(constitutive and regulative)
How CMM conceptualizes communication? (cont)
- conherence
- “friction” or “relational dissonance”
- coordination
- mystery(unknown)
- the serpentine model of communication
- bifurcation points (turning point in a convo)
What are some heuristics view of CMM?
- daisy model
- serpentine model
- hierarchy model
what is hierarchy model?
-the “contexts” of a conversation
hierarchy of context (upside down pyramid)
the lowest: the content= “You’re a jerk”
Next: Speech art= joke
next: Episode= this is our normal banter (coffee w/ a friend)
example: Nag>delay>nag>delay
Hierarchy of context (upside down pyramid) cont.
Next: relationships= this is a long standing friendship
next: autobiography= i’m a friendly person who enjoys fun
Top: cultural patterns= a norm in this group is to engage in playful insults
hierarchy of meanings
-contexts and meaning
———–| (context of) ex) ugly argument
—-> (counts as/means) ex) insult—> hostility
“ ex) jokingly
“ ex) insult—> joke
more exmaples of hierarchy of meanings
-contexts: overlapping and interlinked
-but not static in their organization!
“ ex) relationship: longstanding….
“ ex) episode: ugly argument —-> unpleasant, but sometimes happens
“ ex) episode: ugly argument
“ex) relationship: first date ——> defining of the relationship
example: contexts of meaning
autobiography:
Episode:
—-> you engage in this episode because it is part of your identity
episode:
autobiography:
- —-> the episode changes your autobiography
what are rules of CMM?
-different rules= no coordination
>incoherent conversations
-simliar rule systems= coordination
>coherent conversations
How do you get all these rules? CMM and “rules”
social construction of deontic logics
- trial and error (too close to you in elevator)
- social sanctions
How do you get all these rules? (CMM)
- modeling, molding, observation (elevator positioning)
- rules tend to be passively learned
- therefore, many actions and interpretations are passively enacted
what is a practical tool used in cmm?
“writing the rules”
What are “writing the rules”?
- Writing the rules
- making the implicit, explicit
- taking all the assunptions and examining them directly
- look for coordination (or lack thereof)
what is force?
- a cause for an action
- a cause for someone to enact a particulare regulative or constitutive way.
What is Prefigurative Force?
Antecedent–>Act
What is Practical force?
Act–> Consequent
What is Contextual Force?
Pressure from hierarchy of meaning
What is Implicative Force?
Pressure to transform contexts and change definitions
What is Reflexive Force?
A Metaperspective: From an awareness of the “game”
-a motivation to transform communication
What does URP stand for?
Unwanted Repetitive Patterns
What is URP?
- The argument expressed that keeps coming up, over and over again
- powerless to break the cycle
What are strong links for an URP?
- strong link between act and antecedent (prefigurative force)
- strong link between act and autobiography
- perception of a narow range of alternative acts
What are weak links of URP?
- weak link between act and consequences (little use of practical force)
- reflective relationship between episode and relationshop (looped) (who came first:chicken or egg?)
- Strong Contextual force
