Human Dialogue communication perspectives

Narratives

Accounts & Commitments

Narratives offer us possibilities to co-create and share meanings with others as we experience the temporal, social, and contextual realities of our world.

experience Dewey (1938) _____________________ temporal past-present-future ---------------------------- social conditions for living ---------------------------- contextual locations-placements _____________________

Interpreting Experiences

Lingellier & Peterson (2004) _______________________ embodiment ------------------------------ discursive regularities ------------------------------ situated constraints ------------------------------ legitimation-critique _______________________

narrative ground Walter Fisher (1987) we need to be able to articulate and offer a public account of the good in which we believe and that propels our communicative action in public and private life

Meaning In The Moment

Historical-Relational-Sociocultural

Our understanding of communication directly influences how we manage meanings for ourselves, relate to others, and participate in our world.

Alternative Framings

reworkings Leslie A. Baxter (2011) _____________________________________ false binary of public/private ------------------------------------------------- bias against uncertainty ------------------------------------------------- illusion of a monadic individual actor ------------------------------------------------- inattention to power ------------------------------------------------- illusion of relationships as containers ____________________________________

Tensions Between

Harmony & Conflict

The tensions between what is centered and what is marginalized can impose contradictory meanings onto our experiences of identities and relationships. We will create new ground for those contradictions in and through communication as we embody, interpret, relate to, and commune with the uncertainties of our world.

Group Subscriptions

Making Sense Of Our World

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Individuals make choices based on what is communicated to them, what they value, what they want, and what they can do.

Lead Learners

Social Change

___________________________________________ Mon, December 1, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pm Sat, December 13, 2025, 12:00-1:30 pm ___________________________________________

This is a space for those who want to understand more about neoliberalism, resilience, organizational communication, postcolonial approaches, and communication for social change.

Practices-Discourses-Systems

Diversity & Inclusion

identities---social change---cultures

_________________________________ Neoliberalism Resilience Organizational Communication Postcolonial approaches Communication For Social Change _________________________________

_________________________________ the right to be understood the right to communicate the right to make our own decisions _________________________________

Learning

Reflection-Communication-Action

Asking "why" about our direct experiences with the world.

the oppressed Paulo Freire the very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped

What will we tell the children when they ask why their learning resided outside of communication? Will we speak of ethical standards, intellectual responsibilities, or our right to assemble? What will we say when they ask why so many books were banned from their literacy? Will we tell them to be silent?

Neoliberalism

Moral Principles & Rules Of Law

___________________________________ economic and political system ---------------------------------------------- pushes responsibility to the individual ---------------------------------------------- a sophisticated propaganda system ---------------------------------------------- protects elite "interests" ___________________________________

an ideology Chomsky & Robinson (2024) the belief that their domination is for the good of the dominated

______________________________ What is the American dream? Who does it serve? Who does it subjugate? ______________________________

Communication

An Active Process

Uncertainty demands processes that can move beyond the fragmentations, reductions, and causal explanations that are all too often privileged in our world. Communication offers us frameworks for understanding and addressing diversity, inequality, and inclusion as structural issues that can be responded to in our practices, discourses, and systems. What has become of the social? What has become normal?

communication Mumby & Kuhn (2019) the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings through interactional symbolic practices, including conversation, metaphors, rituals, stories, and space

Human Resilience

Stability & Change

human resilience Patrice M. Buzzanell constituted in and through communicative processes that enhance people's abilities to create new normalcies

________________________________ both reactivity and proactivity ------------------------------------------ mobilization toward resources ------------------------------------------ challenging normative demands ------------------------------------------ engaging strategically in dissent ------------------------------------------ both adapting and transforming _________________________________

subjugation Stephen Porges bodies and minds conform to institutional forms

Social Change

Participatory-Horizontal

the power of the people The Honourable Vida Yeboa (2006) _________________________________ relies on people to endure ------------------------------------------- to advocate for the change that will benefit them ------------------------------------------- to work through their differences ------------------------------------------- to come together and form social movements to demand their rights __________________________________

Meaningful change does not trickle down from the top on down. It happens when we act upon time, space, and what we relationally and socially sustain together from the bottom on up. Meaningful change happens in and through communication.

Justice Journals

Forms Of Discipline

_______________________________________ Wed, December 3, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pm Wed, December 17, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pm _______________________________________

This is a space for those who want to understand more about interpersonal communication, human perception, and identities-based frameworks.

Identities

Standpoints & Locations

selves-------interdependence------others

______________________________________ Interpersonal Communication Human Perception Identities-Based Frameworks ______________________________________

Interpersonal Communication

An Ongoing Process

interpersonal communication Julia T. Wood (2020) a selective, systemic process that allows people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meanings

Interpersonal communication offers us an ongoing process and frameworks to expand what we notice, how we organize our relationships with others, and the multiple ways we can interpret our world.

Human Perception

Worldviews

worldviews Kenneth Burke a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing

Communication offers us possibilities to expand in our experiences of identities across the continuum of personal growth, performances, relationships, and communities. We will explore what has been defined, appraised, scripted, attached, ascribed, and generalized in our relationships with others.

particular others Julia T. Wood (2020) ___________________ direct definitions reflected appraisals identity scripts attachment styles ___________________

Matrix Of Domination

Consent & Dissent

_______________________________________ Communication Theory Of Identities Critical Feminist Theory Critical Race Theory Intersectionality Strong Black Woman Collective Theory Queer Theory _______________________________________

Critical Consciousness

Structures Of Power

________________________________________ Sat, December 6, 2025, 12:00-1:30 pm Sat, December 20, 2025, 12:00-1:30 pm _______________________________________

This is a space for those who want to understand more about critical-cultural communication, communication ethics, qualitative approaches, harmony building, and conflict management.

Cultures

Autonomy & Control

understanding--intersubjective--meaning

_____________________________________ Communication Ethics Critical-Cultural Communication Qualitative Approaches Harmony Building Conflict Management _____________________________________

culture Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018) assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power

A Critical Perspective

A Form Of Inquiry

__________________________________________ How did it come to be the way that it is? Who does it harm? Who does it benefit? _________________________________________

Communication offers us a process to question and challenge what we are directly experiencing and witnessing within the cultures we participate in.

efficiency Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) the Nazis took pride in their ability to transport people in cattle cars with down-to-the-minute predictability to their final deadly destinations

Control Processes

Mumby & Kuhn (2019) __________________________ direct: subordinate technological: efficiency bureaucratic: merit system ideological: values-beliefs biocratic: life itself __________________________

critical inquiry Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018) asking complicated questions and sorting through the implications of our (in)actions

An Ongoing Debate

Positions & Persuasions

protections----the "good"----promotions

Our understanding of communication is central to how effectively we can participate in the ongoing debate of how we are positioned and how we are persuaded in our world?

Martin Buber If one of the parties in discourse does not agree on the value of conversation, or even on the right of the other party to exist, there is little opportunity for shared learning. In such cases, dialogue is simply not possible.

Communication Ethics

A Sharing Between Persons

Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) ______________________________________ a public account shapes identities an ethical map public commitments to the good reforms institutions unites communities ______________________________________

Followerships

Agency & Decision Making

Communication offers us a process for moving conversations about the "good(s)" from a private holding to publicly shared mappings. As communication claims the priority a new bond takes form between followers and leader(s). The followers begin to lead in their assembly.

knowledge Mumby & Kuhn (2019) a highly contested, contingent, and ever-changing process