Step 3 - Select Effects, Content, Genre and Events

Question 1

Choose desired effects: The people of community X will…

Answer 1

understand X (think differently), change X (act differently); feel solidarity with others; experience hope, joy, remorse, other emotions

Question 2

Choose content

Answer 2

identify biblical (or medical, etc.) truths to be related

Question 3

Choose genre

Answer 3

capacity to communicate content
appropriate connotations (and/or community is ready to move it into new arenas of use)

Question 4

Choose event

Answer 4

picture of communication events

 - smooth lines=predictable, regular
 - curved edges=more variable, improvisatory
      - stable vs. malleable
 - constant cycle between two parties, whether in real time/space or separated by either of these factors

Question 5

stable vs. malleable sources

Answer 5

Harris (2012); Bauman (1975); Beeman (1997); Lord (2000); Maranda (1971); Schrag (2013)

Question 6

Harris (2012)

Answer 6

emergence theory

Question 7

Bauman (1975)

Answer 7

every performance is new due to different environment = emergent

Question 8

Beeman (1997)

Answer 8

reinforces idea of emergence due to environment (also considers artistic communication events primary people understand world around them: conservative (confirming), or transformative)

Question 9

Lord (2000)

Answer 9

oral formulaic theory explains how this can happen

Question 10

Maranda (1971)

Answer 10

success of riddles has less to do with exact words and more with “rules of formation and transformation”

Question 11

Schrag (2013)

Answer 11

applicable to all kinds of elements (bus vs. road, call vs. response, etc.)]