Positioning Theory examines how speech acts and storylines assign identities, rights, and duties during interaction. Participants can accept or contest those assignments, including who may decide or demand an explanation. Analysis reconstructs the episode rather than inferring conversational positions directly from formal roles.
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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
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.