Coordinated Management of Meaning

A road images of world order and (a person’s) relationship to that order.

• Speech Act

• Life Script

• Cultural Pattern

• Regulative Rules

Rules that organize behavior

• Regulative Rules

• Constitutive Rules

• Both are right

• Both are wrong

Social constructionism is the belief about how meaning and action fit within an interpersonal interaction

• True

• False

The notion that the interests of the group are put before the interests of the individual are applied to these cultures, except for ...

• Peru

• Colombia

• USA

• Taiwan

All statements below are right about the assumption that human beings co-create a social reality, except for ...

• People come with a host of past conversational experiences

• People construct their social reality in conversation

• Many interactions are smooth and elegant

• Meaning and action fit within an interpersonal interaction

The Loop that occurs when one part of the hierarchy confirms or supports another level

• Strange Loop

• Charmed Loop

• Reflexivity

• Align Loop

Clusters of past or present episodes that create a system of manageable meanings with others

• Cultural Pattern

• Speech Act

• Punctuation

• Life Script

Interpersonal meaning is the meaning achieved when a person brings his/her unique experiences to an interaction

• True

• False

The sequential and recurring interpersonal conflictual episodes that are considered unwanted by the individuals in the conflict

• Regulative Rules

• Unwanted Repetitive Pattern

• Coordination Process

• Rules of meaning

Because individuals create their conversational reality, each interaction must be unique

• True

• False