Ma treats intervals of space and time as meaningful relations. A pause or threshold gains significance through its surroundings and participants’ expectations. Applying the concept means examining what a transition permits, rather than assuming that silence, sparse design, or slower communication is inherently preferable.
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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
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.