%0 Journal Article
%T The Language and Social Psychology of Savoring: Advancing the Communication Savoring Model
%A Margaret Jane Pitts
%J Journal of Language and Social Psychology
%@ 1552-6526
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0261927X18821404
%X Savoring is a well-established construct in positive psychology referring to one¡¯s capacity to recognize and appreciate enjoyable life experiences. Guided by phenomenological inquiry and constructivist grounded theory, I propose communication savoring as a new dimension of social savoring that has theoretical and practical relevance in the fields of positive communication and language and social psychology. Evidence is drawn from young adults¡¯ narrative descriptions of communication moments they savored. From these narratives, I proffer a typology of communication savoring that includes aesthetic communication, communication presence, nonverbal communication, recognition and acknowledgment, relational communication, extraordinary communication, and implicitly shared communication. I also describe the phenomenological experiences of savoring social interactions in the past, present, and future. To advance the communication model of savoring, I offer initial conceptual and operational definitions of communication savoring and recommend future directions for research within interpersonal and intergroup relationships
%K savoring
%K broaden-and-build
%K positive psychology
%K positive communication
%K positive emotions
%K phenomenology
%K grounded theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X18821404