Bormann Ernest G.

Ernest Bormann (1925-2008) was a communications scholar, most noted for authoring the Symbolic Convergence Theory of communication as well as Fantasy Theme Analysis. Both theories are intended as universal explanations of how human communities understand and make sense of human action.

== Biography ==
Ernest G. Bormann was Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Department of Speech-Communication. He received his B.A. from the University of South Dakota in 1949, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1953.

== Article Summaries ==

[[Bormann, Ernest "Symbolic Convergence Theory"]]

[[Bormann, Ernest "Fantasy Theme Analysis"]]

== Additional Works/ Publications ==

==== Books ====

: [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DM_ucVv0W-EC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=ernest+bormann&ots=6RnLs1L5RC&sig=mh4FL07p8kr09Vk08VU_yqvlI0U#v=onepage&q=ernest%20bormann&f=false ''The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream'']

: [http://books.google.com/books?id=9V12AAAAMAAJ&q=ernest+bormann&dq=ernest+bormann&hl=en&sa=X&ei=V2KIT4j1LaeQ2QWw8_XMCQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBA ''Forerunners of Black Power: the Rhetoric of Abolition'']

==== Articles/Essays ====

: [http://www.joshiejuice.com/articles/fantasy.pdf ''Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality'']

: [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1985.tb02977.x/abstract ''Symbolic Convergence Theory: a Communication Formulation'']

== Further Readings ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bormann ''Brittanica's entry on Roland Barthes'']

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