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| Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen |
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| Communication scholars from the Fielding Institute and the University of Massachusetts, respectively, who co-created the theory of coordinated management of meaning. |
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| The belief that persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities. |
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| Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) |
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| A social constructionist theory of communication that seeks to explain how persons-in-conversation negotiate meaning and coordinate action. |
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| A term used to designate interpersonal communication as seen from inside the process. |
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| A lithograph by M.C. Esher that illustrates several key concepts about persons-in-conversation, particularly their interrelatedness. |
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| The narratives persons-in-conversation tell as they engage in coherence in an attempt to interpret the world and assign meaning to their lives. |
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| The narratives persons-in-conversation act out as they engage in coordination in an attempt to mesh their lives with others. |
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| Joint action, the process by which persons collaborate in an attempt to bring into being their vision of what is necessary, noble, and good and to preclude the enactment of what they fear, hate, or despise. |
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| The first and narrowest of the four contexts in which we interpret any given speech act, an episode is a recognized communication routine that has definite boundaries and rules—a recurrent language game. |
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| The second of the four contexts in which we interpret any given speech act. |
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| The third of the four contexts in which we interpret any given speech act. |
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| The fourth and broadest of the four contexts in which we interpret any given speech act. |
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| Community-based Action Research |
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| A collaborative approach to investigation that seeks to engage community members as equal and full participants in the research process. |
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| Stories that participants have decided not to disclose. |
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| Stories that lie below the level of consciousness |
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| Stories that others in conversation are unable or unwilling to hear. |
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| Featured in an Ethical Reflection below, a philosopher who developed the concept of dialogic communication. |
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| Originally developed by Martin Buber, in CMM this term refers to speaking in a way that others can and will listen, and listening in a way that others can and will speak. |
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| Cosmopolitan Communicators |
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| People who intentionally converse in a socially eloquent way that promotes respectful dialogue and coordination, closely related to dialogic communication. |
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