Manded altercasting directly assigns an identity that makes a requested behavior appear role-consistent. Calling someone the responsible expert can attach obligations and raise the social cost of refusal. The target can reject the assignment; credible identity language does not replace substantive reasons for the request.
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- CategoryConcepts & Constructs
- DomainPersuasion & Argument
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.