Table of Contents

  • DEDICATION
  • ABSTRACT
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • THE PROJECT
  • METHODOLOGY (HERMENEUTIC ETHNOGRAPHY)
  • A NEW DEFINITION OF DIALOGUE
    • EXPLORING THE DEFINITION
    • TRANSFORMATIVE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION
    • ENABLING DIALOGICAL SPACE (THE FIRST LAYER)
      • Qualitative Time & Space.
      • Willingness & Good Faith.
    • CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EMERGING DIALOGUE (THE THIRD LAYER)
      • Re-humanizing Self and Others.
      • Suspension.
      • Search for Shared Meaning.
      • Framing in a larger context.
  • ARCHETYPAL MODEL OF DIALOGIC PROCESS (THE SECOND LAYER)
    • ME AND OTHER
    • GIRAFFE AND JACKAL (AUTONOMOUS AND COLLECTIVE PRINCIPLES)
    • HYENA (UNWILLING AUTONOMOUS PRINCIPLE)
    • GEODUCK (UNWILLING COLLECTIVE PRINCIPLE)
    • MALICE AND INDIFFERENCE (THE OUTER CIRCLE OF ENGAGEMENT)
    • THE RHINO (ORDERING PRINCIPLE)
    • MONKEY (CREATIVE PRINCIPLE)
    • SHARK AND LOCUST (UNWILLING ORDERING AND CREATIVE PRINCIPLES)
    • THE CENTER (DYNAMIC BALANCING PRINCIPLE)
    • LITERATURE SUPPORTING THE ARCHETYPAL MODEL
    • THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THESE ARCHETYPES
  • FUTURE DIRECTIONS
    • DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
    • GAME THEORY
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • WORKS CITED