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Defending symbolic convergence theory from an imaginary Gunn
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In this paper, the authors defend symbolic convergence theory from an imaginary Gunn, arguing that it is not the same as the one presented in the present paper, and defend the convergence theory.Abstract:
(2003). Defending symbolic convergence theory from an imaginary Gunn. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 366-372.read more
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Collective Virtuosity in Organizations: A Study of Peak Performance in an Orchestra
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the phenomenon of peak performance at the group level through a methodology of participant observation in an orchestra and found that groups can be transformed by their own performance in a reflexive process in which virtuosity or individual peak performance becomes collective.
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Refitting fantasy: Psychoanalysis subjectivity, and talking to the dead
TL;DR: The authors argue that the concept of communication, usually understood as the mediation or reconciliation of Self and Other, is based on what Lacan termed the fundamental fantasy, an underlying psychical structure that channels desire, usually a subject's desire for the Other's desire.
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Zombie trouble : A propaedeutic on ideological subjectification and the unconscious
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TL;DR: This paper argued that rhetorical scholars have yet to move beyond an obsession with the laboring zombie, and suggested an acceptance of the category of the unconscious and a focus on ideology as a force of subjectification.
Competing Visions: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference and SBC Forum, 1961-1991
TL;DR: Dubberly and Vogel as discussed by the authors argue that conservative and moderate Southern Baptists viewed the conservative resurgence as a competition between conservative visions for Baptist identity as differentiated by the mutually exclusive manner in which each group perceived of doctrine and the constitution of denominational fellowship.
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Collaborative, Comparative Inquiry and Transformative Cross-Cultural Adult Learning and Teaching: A Western Educator Metanarrative and Inspiring a Global Vision
TL;DR: In this article, the authors design international perspectives into adult educator preparation programs, aiming to develop instructors' social and instructional cache of understandings about learning, which is a step toward developing instructors social knowledge and understanding about learning.
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An Expansion of the Rhetorical Vision Component of the Symbolic Convergence Theory: The Cold War Paradigm Case.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the expansion of the rhetorical vision component of Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT) and demonstrate that rhetorical visions exist along at least four continua and that a number of distinct rhetorical principles operate in the creation, development, maturity and decline of a rhetorical vision.
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A fantasy theme analysis of political cartoons on the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr affair
TL;DR: This article used symbolic convergence theory to analyze 2,000 political cartoons on the investigation, impeachment, and trial of the president and showed that multiple, independent, rhetors can create a rhetorical vision.