Argument and the “definition of the situation”

Cox, J. Robert

doi:10.1080/10510978109368095

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“…The second dimension in SCCR explores what creates the subjective reality of a crisis -language. SCCR contends that language creates reality (Cox, 1981). Language is in this sense a vehicle for understanding and constructing the world around us (Rosenberg, 2012).…”

Section: Text -A Constitutive View Of Languagementioning

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Explicating the social constructionist perspective on crisis communication and crisis management research: a review of communication and business journals

Zhao

2020

Journal of Public Relations Research

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There is a growing body of literature concerning the social construction of crisis. This study aimed to clarify inconsistencies regarding the social constructionist perspective by examining how the key terms of social constructionism are applied in crisis communication and crisis management studies. Through an analysis of 65 scholarly works in both communication and business journals, this study proposes a four-dimensional model of social constructionist crisis research (SCCR): (1) cause -the objective facticity and subjective meaning of crisis; (2) text -a constitutive view of language; (3) meaning -multiple actors and multiple realities; and (4) context -societal context awareness. Next, three approaches to SCCR are identified: a terminological approach, a framing approach, and a complexity-based approach. Lastly, the implications of social constructionism for theory and methodology development in crisis communication are discussed.

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Section: Text -A Constitutive View Of Languagementioning

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Explicating the social constructionist perspective on crisis communication and crisis management research: a review of communication and business journals

Zhao

2020

Journal of Public Relations Research

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“…As questions and questioning concern reality, their instances are particularly demonstrative of the way in which language shapes and mirrors realities. Questions do not spring up in a vacuum: questions are underpinned by matrices of assumptions, possibilities, explanations, arguments, and expectations about what would constitute a reasonable response (Cox, 1981;Garfinkel, 1981;Schiappa, 2003). Thus, an institutional encounter constitutes a particular reality, constructed in the moment of communication, but buttressed by the relevant discourses marshaled by that institution.…”

Section: Question(s/ing) As Constructing and Reflecting Institutionalmentioning

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Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: an introduction

Tracy¹,

Robles²

2009

Discourse Studies

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This article introduces the special issue on questions, questioning, and institutional practices. We begin by considering how questioning as a discursive practice is a central vehicle for constructing social worlds and reflecting existing ones. Then we describe the different ways questions and question(ing) have been defined, typologized, and critiqued, in general and within seven institutions including policing, the courts, medicine, therapy, research interviews, education, and mediated political exchanges. The introduction concludes with a preview of the articles in the special issue. K E Y W O R D S : identity-work, institutional discourse, question, questioningThe avowal and imputation of motives is concomitant with the speech form known as the 'question'. (Mills, 1940: 904) Asking a question is not an innocent thing to do. (Steensig and Drew, 2008: 7) The most general thing we can say about a question is that it compels, requires, may even demand a response. (Goody, 1978: 23)

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Zarefsky¹

2014

Argumentation Library

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Argument and the “definition of the situation”

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Explicating the social constructionist perspective on crisis communication and crisis management research: a review of communication and business journals

Explicating the social constructionist perspective on crisis communication and crisis management research: a review of communication and business journals

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