Meaning Flashcards

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What is the transmission view?

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-Limits us by focusing on only asking “is my message getting across?”

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What is communication through the Constitutive View?

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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?
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who created the coordinated management meaning theory (CMM) ?

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W. Barnett Pearce

Vernon Cronen

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What is CMM as a communication theory?

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Worldview II

  • subjectivist
  • social constructionist
  • somewhat nontraditional (heuristics)
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How CMM conceptualizes communication?

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  • speech acts
  • conversation
  • daisy model
  • social worlds
  • deontic logic (obligation)
  • rules(constitutive and regulative)
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How CMM conceptualizes communication? (cont)

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  • conherence
  • “friction” or “relational dissonance”
  • coordination
  • mystery(unknown)
  • the serpentine model of communication
  • bifurcation points (turning point in a convo)
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What are some heuristics view of CMM?

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  • daisy model
  • serpentine model
  • hierarchy model
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what is hierarchy model?

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-the “contexts” of a conversation

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hierarchy of context (upside down pyramid)

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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

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Hierarchy of context (upside down pyramid) cont.

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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

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hierarchy of meanings

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-contexts and meaning
———–| (context of) ex) ugly argument
—-> (counts as/means) ex) insult—> hostility
“ ex) jokingly
“ ex) insult—> joke

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more exmaples of hierarchy of meanings

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-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

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example: contexts of meaning

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autobiography:
Episode:
—-> you engage in this episode because it is part of your identity

episode:

autobiography:
- —-> the episode changes your autobiography

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what are rules of CMM?

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-different rules= no coordination
>incoherent conversations
-simliar rule systems= coordination
>coherent conversations

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How do you get all these rules? CMM and “rules”

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social construction of deontic logics

  • trial and error (too close to you in elevator)
  • social sanctions
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How do you get all these rules? (CMM)

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  • modeling, molding, observation (elevator positioning)
  • rules tend to be passively learned
  • therefore, many actions and interpretations are passively enacted
17
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what is a practical tool used in cmm?

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“writing the rules”

18
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What are “writing the rules”?

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  • Writing the rules
  • making the implicit, explicit
  • taking all the assunptions and examining them directly
  • look for coordination (or lack thereof)
19
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what is force?

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  • a cause for an action

- a cause for someone to enact a particulare regulative or constitutive way.

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What is Prefigurative Force?

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Antecedent–>Act

21
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What is Practical force?

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Act–> Consequent

22
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What is Contextual Force?

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Pressure from hierarchy of meaning

23
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What is Implicative Force?

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Pressure to transform contexts and change definitions

24
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What is Reflexive Force?

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A Metaperspective: From an awareness of the “game”

-a motivation to transform communication

25
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What does URP stand for?

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Unwanted Repetitive Patterns

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What is URP?

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  • The argument expressed that keeps coming up, over and over again
  • powerless to break the cycle
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What are strong links for an URP?

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  • strong link between act and antecedent (prefigurative force)
  • strong link between act and autobiography
  • perception of a narow range of alternative acts
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What are weak links of URP?

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  • 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