Craig’s constitutive metamodel creates dialogue among competing conceptions of communication and treats theory as metadiscourse. Its tentative traditions help expose assumptions within diagnoses, while evidence must still establish whether a proposed mechanism operates and classification must preserve disagreement rather than replace inquiry.
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- DomainEvidence & Evaluation
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.