semiotic, linguistic, and discursive orientations
social-interactional orientations
To take a constitutive view of communication means to presume that communication, or interaction, is a process of meaning creation or social construction. The fundamental idea of constitution has had enormous influence on the field of communication, especially in the areas of interpersonal communication and organizational communication. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Constitutive View of Communication]
constitutive view of communication
concepts
paradigms, traditions, and schools