Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method

TL;DR: This article found that half of the American public consistently endorses at least one conspiracy theory and that many popular conspiracy theories are differentiated along ideological and anomic dimensions, and that the likelihood of supporting conspiracy theories is strongly predicted by a willingness to believe in other unseen, intentional forces and an attraction to Manichean narratives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s, and show that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion, and they conclude with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reinterpret R. T. Craig's call for a dialogue between communication perspectives as a formulation of design specs to which any constitutive model of communication should respond, and propose to answer this call by metaphorically conceiving of communication as a form of ventriloquism.