Communication is regarded as a coordination of behaviour rather than the transmission of information. Languaging is the coordination of coordinations of behaviour. Humans are immersed so deeply in language that we hardly realise its profound role in constructing our world together. Emotioning is fundamental. We are always emotioning.
Conversation refers to the flow of emotioning and languaging as they are delicately intertwined.
Conversation does not just refer to the spoken interaction, but entails our body movement and expression, touching and so on. What we say and do in conversation does not instruct or convey, nor determine a response - it simply triggers changes in the emotioning and languaging of another, which, in turn, shape the next bit of the conversation. Meaning arises in the flow of conversation. It does not reside in words themselves, nor can it be transferred from person to person. The conversations form a network and these networks of conversation constitute our culture .