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  2. Communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Theory can be seen as a way to map the world and make it navigable; communication theory gives us tools to answer empirical, conceptual, or practical communication questions. [1] Communication is defined in both commonsense and specialized ways. Communication theory emphasizes its symbolic and social process aspects as seen from two ...

  3. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [2] Social normative influences or social norms, are deemed to be powerful drivers of human behavioural changes and well organized and incorporated by major theories which explain human behaviour . [ 3 ]

  4. Co-cultural communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Since the introduction of co-cultural theory in "Laying the foundation for co-cultural communication theory: An inductive approach to studying "non-dominant" communication strategies and the factors that influence them" (1996), Orbe has published two works describing the theory and its use as well as several studies on communication patterns and strategies based on different co-cultural groups.

  5. Ethnography of communication - Wikipedia

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    N - norms of interaction: what the rules are for producing and interpreting speech acts G - genres : what 'type' does a speech event belong to (e.g. interview, gossip), and what other pre-existing conventional forms of speech are drawn on or 'cited' in producing appropriate contributions to talk (e.g. do people quote from mythology or poetry or ...

  6. Communicative rationality - Wikipedia

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    Communicative rationality or communicative reason (German: kommunikative Rationalität) is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication. This theory is in particular tied to the philosophy of German philosophers Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas, and their program of ...

  7. Social rule system theory - Wikipedia

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    Social rule system theory is an attempt to formally approach different kinds of social rule systems in a unified manner. Social rules systems include institutions such as norms, laws, regulations, taboos, customs, and a variety of related concepts and are important in the social sciences and humanities.

  8. Display rules - Wikipedia

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    Display rules can help to decrease situational ambiguity, help individuals to be accepted by their social groups, and can help groups to increase their group efficacy. [1] They can be described as culturally prescribed rules that people learn early on in their lives by interactions and socializations with other people. [2]

  9. Communicative Constitution of Organizations - Wikipedia

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    Communication is not an individual experience it is an inherently social phenomenon. [5] [23] Meaning is an ongoing, updating, and always social process. Premise 4 is that the agent of action (both human and non-human) remains an open question. CCO theory embraces the ability of artifacts to shape the actions of members of the organization.