Making Social Worlds A Communication Perspective 1st Edition by W Barnett Pearce ISBN 1405162600 9781405162609
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ISBN 10: 1405162600
ISBN 13: 9781405162609
Author: W Barnett Pearce
- Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication
- Defines the ‘critical moments’ of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings
- Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds
Making Social Worlds A Communication Perspective 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Critical Moments that Shape Our Social Worlds
Preview
A Critical Moment in a 911 Emergency Telephone Call
Why Acting Wisely in Critical Moments is Important: We’re in a Race that We Need to Win
9/11: A Missed Opportunity to Act Wisely in a Critical Moment
What happened?
How was the story told?
How did President Bush respond?
Could President Bush have responded in another way?
Examples of acting wisely in critical moments
Could President Bush have acted more wisely in the critical moment of 9/11?
Chapter 2 Taking a Communication Perspective on Social Worlds
Preview
Everybody Has a Theory of Communication, Although Most People Don’t Know It
If Communication is so Important, How Should We Understand It?
My Discovery of Social Worlds
Social worlds
The worldliness of social worlds
There are many social worlds
Social worlds are made
Each of us is an agent in the process of making social worlds
Questions Asked by Those who Take a Communication Perspective on Social Worlds
Chapter 3 Paradigms and the “Physics” of Social Worlds
Preview
What was That?
Paradigms
Questions and Questioning
Playfulness
Systemic
Process
Emergent Characteristics
Chapter 4 Communication: Coordinating Actions and Making/Managing Meanings
Preview
Theory as a Way of Seeing Things
Coordinating Actions
Choosing “coordination” as a sensitizing concept for understanding communication
Understanding how patterns of communication develop and discerning critical moments
Acting wisely in critical moments
Making/Managing Meaning
Coherence: the gift of meaning and purpose
Subjugation: the cost of fitting into prefigured molds
Mystery: the gift of wonder and openings for exploration
Communication as the Site where Social Worlds are Made
Chapter 5 Doing Things in Communication: Speech Acts
Preview
Speech Acts and the Quality of Our Lives
Our Social Worlds are Made of Speech Acts
Why call them “speech acts”?
How many speech acts are there?
Where do speech acts come from?
Speech Acts are Made in Coordinated Actions
Performing Speech Acts
What is being done by what is said? Conversational implicature
To what is that a response? The conversational triplet
What can/must/should I do? Logical force
What is the wisest course of action? Ante-narrative
Making Better Social Worlds
Change the situation so that there will be a different ratio of speech acts
Resist or prevent the performance of undesired speech acts
Facilitating or enabling the performance of desired speech acts
Chapter 6 Episodes and Patterns of Communication
Preview
Social Life is Episodic
Our Social Worlds are Made of Episodes
Making Episodes
Making/managing meaning: perceiving the flow of experience as episodes
Realizing episodes in coordinated action
Patterns of Communication
Making Better Social Worlds
Freeing us up so that we can make wiser choices
Calling better patterns of communication into being
Chapter 7 Selves and Forms of Consciousness
Preview
Here I Am!
Selves are Made in Processes of Communication
Forms of Consciousness Emerge in Processes of Communication
The Role of Selves in Making Social Worlds
Making Better Social Worlds
Is there an innate impulse toward evolution of consciousness?
Is there a special kind of transformative learning?
How can we support each other in our zones of proximal development?
How can we structure our institutions so that they support the evolution of consciousness?
Can we take proactive steps to structure better forms of communication?
Chapter 8 Relationships and Relational Minds
Preview
The Difference between Being Related and Being in Relationship
Relationships and Minds as Objects in Our Social Worlds
Relationships as Contexts for the Way We Communicate
Making Relationships in Communication
The Evolution of Relational Minds
Making Better Social Worlds
Chapter 9 Afterword: Something of a Guide for Using CMM
Warning!
Ways of “Using” CMM
How Do You Know if You’ve Used CMM Well?
A Typical Four-phase Sequence in Using CMM
Description
Interpretation
Critique
Putting it into practice
Entry Points for CMM Practice
An Example of Consulting Using Systemic Questioning
This is a Test . . .
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