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: [http://www.joshiejuice.com/articles/fantasy.pdf ''Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality''] | : [http://www.joshiejuice.com/articles/fantasy.pdf ''Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality''] | ||
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: [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1985.tb02977.x/abstract ''Symbolic Convergence Theory: a Communication Formulation''] | : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1985.tb02977.x/abstract ''Symbolic Convergence Theory: a Communication Formulation''] | ||
Revision as of 17:40, 13 April 2012
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.
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Biography
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
Articles/Essays
Further Readings
Brittanica's entry on Roland Barthes
