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Symbolic Convergence Theory

Chapter 19

Dramatizing Message

Imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events, creative interpretations of there-and-then

Fantasy

-Creative and imaginative shared interpretations of events that fulfills a a group’s psychological or rhetorical needs

Sharing group fantasies creates symbolic convergence!

Fantasy Chain

A symbolic explosion of lively agreement within a group in response to a dramatizing message

Fantasy Continued

Symbolic Convergence

DEFINED

Fantasy Theme

  • Content of the fantasy that has chained out within a group. Composed of a groups meanings, emotions, motives and actions

Fantasy type

  • Cluster of related fantasy themes

Symbolic cues

  • an agreed-upon trigger that sets off group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy

Symbolic convergence theory is a communication theory that offers an explanation for the appearance of a group's cohesiveness, consisting of shared emotions, motives, and meanings.

Rhetorical Vision

A composite drama that catches up large groups of people into a common symbolic reality

Symbolic Convergence can continue on to affect large groups!

Fantasy Theme Analysis

  • People create their social reality
  • People's meanings, motives, and emotions can be seen in their rhetoric.
  • Characters
  • Plot Lines
  • Scene
  • Sanctioning Agent
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