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