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Text and conversation is a theory in the field of organizational communication illustrating how communication makes up an organization. In the theory's simplest explanation, an organization is created and defined by communication. Communication "is" the organization and the organization exists because communication takes place. The theory is built on the notion, an organization is not seen as a physical unit holding communication.〔Miller, 2005.〕 Text and conversation theory puts communication processes at the heart of organizational communication and postulates, an organization doesn’t contain communication as a "causal influence,"〔 but is formed by the communication within. This theory is not intended for direct application, but rather to explain how communication exists. The theory provides a framework for better understanding organizational communication. Since the foundation of organizations are in communication,〔Taylor, 1999.〕 an organization cannot exist without communication, and the organization is defined as the result of communications happening within its context. Communications begin with individuals within the organization discussing beliefs, goals, structures, plans and relationships. These communicators achieve this through constant development, delivery, and translation of "text and conversation." The theory proposes mechanisms of communications are "text and "conversation." == Definitions == The foundation of this theory is the concepts of text and conversation. Text is defined as the content of interaction, or what is said in an interaction. Text is the meaning made available to individuals through face-to-face or electronic mode of communication. Conversation is defined as what is happening behaviorally between two or more participants in the communication process. Conversation is the exchange or interaction itself.〔 The process of the text and conversation exchange is reciprocal, text needs conversation and vice versa for the process of communication to occur. Text, or content, must have context to be effective and an conversation, or discourse, needs to have a beginning, middle and end. Individuals create the beginning, middle and end by using punctuation, bracketing or framing. When conversation is coupled with text, or meaning, communication occurs.〔 Taylor submits this process is a translation process of: translation of text to conversation and the translation of conversation into text.〔 *"text" = content and meaning *"conversation" = discourse and exchange 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Text and conversation theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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