Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: missionaries' use of metaphor, personification, and in-group vernacular.

Exiting the totalistic and intensively focused structure of missionary service prompts sense-making as missionaries return and adapt to life at home. Drawing from organizational, religious, and interpersonal communication literature, we use the communicated sense-making model to explore how 26 Chris...

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Publicado en:	Human Communication Research Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 106 - 121
Autores principales:	Cooper, R Amanda, Fanari, Alice
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2026
Materias:	Missionaries Metaphor Sensemaking theory (Communication) Organizational communication Discourse Face-to-face communication Identity (Psychology) Anthropomorphism
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