2. Communication and Theatre 4/514 Issues in Organizational Communication Emergent Organizing

3. What is a laminated discourse?

4. If communication is bi-dimensional, what are the dimensions? Sensemaking Criticism

5. One of the most important things you can learn to appreciate is that it is almost always both/and instead of either/or. What does this mean?

6. What is the difference between a lived world and an interpreted world? How about the difference between conversation (site) and text (surface)?

7. Resources available = History Language

8. Constraints = Rules of interaction (to belong) Rules of language (to participate)

9. Narrativization = the sanctioned communication as to what the organization is.

10. Narrative (talk about organizing) = Represents organizational reality Instantiates organizational reality

11. How might we self organize?

12. Conversation = the total of languaging. What does that mean? All informal and formal communication is available for interpretation. What is a spectrum of communication?

13. What is text? What we formalize from our conversation.

14. People enter conversation with: Real (lived experience; real) Symbolic (the used language)

15. Thus, through experience and language we co-construct organizing.

16. To converse we need to: Talk understandably Follow conversational rules

17. In sum, communication is: Contextual Situated Occasional Grounded Iterative Cumulative

18. What is the difference between a vehicle and a destination?

19. What is the difference between a reason for an occurrence and a cause of it?

20. Know Should Would Could A large amount of additional freight (meaning) is carried in a sentence.

21. Our conversations involve both action (pragmatic) and intention (cognitive).

22. Stories are contests of meaning, succeeding or failing, in the context of opposition. So, we have stories and anti-stories; protagonists and antagonists.

23. local situation individual textsassemble texts community text The point of all of this is to conceptualize the emergence of a self organizing community authentizing, voicing, publication conversation thought co-creation, convergence

24. End of Emergent Organizing Session