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| Communication aimed at maintaining relationships rather than passing along information or saying something new |
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| Symbolic actions- words and/or deeds- that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create, or interpret them |
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| A conceptual framework a universal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lens |
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| A scientific philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines of argument |
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| A theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication |
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| a way to evaluate the worth of stories based on the twin standards of narrative coherence and narrative fidelity |
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| Internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hang together |
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| Congruence between values embedded in a message and what listeners regard as truthful and humane; the story strikes a responsive chord |
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| An actual community existing over time that believes in the values of truth, the good, beauty, temperance, justice, harmony,order, communion, friendship, and oneness with the cosmos |
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