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Coordinated Management of Meaning

W Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen

Chapter 6
Interpersonal Communication—Interpersonal Messages

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Theory Overview

Abstracts appear in Appendix A of the 7th Edition

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)

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