Fixing With The Voice: A Research Agenda For Applied Communication.

This article intends to describe a mindset for applied communication research. It is noted that the mindset for the application researcher mixes together concerns for language, glossing, therapy, and relevance. To apply research and to study the application of research is to be mindful of the said concerns. Once sensitized to the this kind of mindset, practitioners become fascinating research collaborators, because they construct novel activities requiring novel applications; they introduce novel variations on activities; they reconfigure an overdetermined world into unexpected patterns, and they need help in forms and around issues that are not understood well. The four components of the application researcher mindset are discussed in this article.