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Communication: Taking Turns, Ordered Steps, or a Dance?

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Do you see the communication process working more like a turn-taking situation, like a linear set of ordered steps, or more analogous to a dance?

Stated earlier, it's more in line with "Dance." Why and why not the others?

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Your discussion is 386 words and explains that it is more like a dance and why.

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Do you see the communication process working more like a turn-taking situation, like a linear set of ordered steps, or more analogous to a dance?

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The communication process is more like a dance. That is because whatever is perceived as the message alters the response. So, taking turns would be ignoring how the receipt of the messages changes what is sent in the next turn. And it matters who goes first because that shifts the conversation based on the perceived message. Linear steps seems a bit sequential, and it can happen that way, but often the back-and-forth is ...

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