Symbolic Convergence Theory

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Across
  1. 2. a cluster of related themes
  2. 4. dramatizing messages that are enthusiastically embraced by the whole group
  3. 5. Symbolic convergence causes
  4. 9. imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events
  5. 10. SCT focuses on this
  6. 13. agreed-upon trigger that sets off group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy
  7. 16. SCT's Theorist
Down
  1. 1. symbolic explosion of likely agreement within a group in response to a member's dramatising message
  2. 3. content of the fantasy that has chained out within a group
  3. 6. when this is advanced members develop a common group consciousness and become closer
  4. 7. Bormann believes fantasies cause group
  5. 8. type of rhetorical criticism used to detect fantasy themes and rhetorical visions
  6. 11. composite drama that catches up large groups of people into a common symbolic reality
  7. 12. Rhetorical visions have four features: characters, plot lines, sanctioning agents, and
  8. 14. what kind of language do dramatizing messages use
  9. 15. two or more private symbol worlds incline toward each other, come more closely together or overlap