ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has demonstrated that the concept of “interpersonal communication” is profoundly misleading. To wit, when someone performs in the material medium, personal, platial, and activity artifacts can materially affect that person’s performances in all modes. What is more, in most places various artifacts and externs are performing, whether or not their performances are affecting those of people. From this plethora of performances, another person – a receiver – constructs inferences that affect his or her response, thereby contributing to an activity’s forward motion.
