In understanding the gesture of communication, be it in the form of speech or otherwise, the communicators’ intention is always to create the desired experience in the audience. Just as one creates and experiences one’s self as the communicator, one co-creates the ‘other’ as audience. It is this co-creative intention that shapes the communicative action. Communication, such as conversation as a form of communicative action, is an iterative process of achieving and refining shared conscious experience. A model for the intersubjective structure of communication is proposed in chapter 12.
Much more material to come on this concept.