Symbolic convergence

Two or more private symbol worlds incline toward each other, come more closely together, or even overlap; group consciousness,cohesiveness.


This theory, is to fantasize and dramatize the message or the creative interpretation. Sharing group fantasies creates symbolic convergence. Which is dramatizing messages and believes that conversations about things outside of what’s going on right now can often serve the group well. antasizing for dramatizing messages that are enthusiastically embraced by the whole group. Most dramatizing messages don’t get that kind of reaction. They often fall on deaf ears,
or group members listen but take a human attitude toward what was said. Of course, an embarrassing silence or a quick change of subject makes it obvious that the dramatizing message has fallen flat.

Like smoking cigarettes , you know that it is bad you still using or smoking. Bormann and symbolic convergence theory advocates have found that many fantasy themes are indexed by a symbolic cue . A symbolic cue is “an agreed-upon
trigger that sets off the group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy. Also, in teasing your siblings to your family, you know that you’re hurting her verbally or emotionally,you still keep doing it because of the shared fantasies or the fun and jokes of it. It could be a code word, nonverbal gesture, phrase, slogan, inside joke, bumper sticker, or any shorthand way of re-establishing the full force.

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