Coordinated Management of Meaning
W Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen
Interpersonal Communication—Interpersonal Messages
Expectancy Violations Theory
Theory Overview (7th Edition)
Abstracts appear in Appendix A of the text
Persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create. They can achieve coherence through common interpretation of their stories told. They can achieve coordination by meshing their stories lived. Dialogic communication, which is learnable, teachable, and contagious, improves the quality of life for everyone. (Socio-cultural and phenomenological traditions)