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Cite as: Dervin, B. (1991). Comparative theory reconceptualized: From entities and states to processes and dynamics. Communication Theory, 1(1), 59-69. Reprinted in: B. Dervin & L. Foreman-Wernet (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.). (2003). Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 61-72). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
© Hampton Press and Brenda Dervin (2003), reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press (1991).

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ABSTRACT:
In this paper, Dervin proposes that scholars in the communication field(s) face a major barrier in their search for comparative strength in the very nature of the analytic commonly used. While many would argue that communication researchers are not using one analytic but rather a bewildering diversity of approaches, Dervin proposes that underneath this chaos there is a common analytic hidden from view. She suggests that for the most part communication scholars have been using conceptualizations of communication inappropriate to the essence of communication phenomena. She calls for and explicates a move from foci on entities and states to processes and dynamics.

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