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participant can say/do next, i.e. the participants in question have the same discursive potential at

that point. In multiparty dialogues, it is clear that differences in participant status, result in different

sets of obligations for the participants (see (Ginzburg & Fernandez, 2005) for more detail), and

accordingly, also affects the acceptability - in terms of relative positioning - of elliptical turns and

the possibilities of their resolution from context. Nevertheless, the characterizations of

conversation as a unit in terms of the set of participants, alluded to above, are contradicted in

discontinuous strands of interaction when conversational contexts are ‘left open’ - questions left

unresolved - and taken up later on; in the sense that what you say later on, to what was said before

the conversation was ‘broken’ e.g. in multi-focus gatherings where one person may be a participant

in more than one parallel conversation. Later I will present experimental evidence that even within

a single conversation more than one dialogue context can emerge as a result of fluctuations in

different participants’ levels of participation which in turn directly can affect CC Metasphere.

There is another extremely important consideration here and that is shifting the context for

community that restores its meaning through conversation. Communities are human systems given

form by conversations that build relatedness (Block, 2009, p. 29). A positive new context relates

and acknowledges that we all have the ability to contribute and maximize our resources together

that creating an alternative desired future requires. This relatedness most often occurs through

dialogue that builds it and the associated life experience where citizens show up by choice to

participate and rarely in the context of system life, where group participation is mandatory or

obligatory. Therefore, the open Metasphere and voluntary participatory aspect of CCs are critical.

Context is the set of beliefs, at times ones that we are unaware of, that dictate how we think,

how we frame the ‘Metasphere’ (experience of our lives) and often dictates how our thoughts,

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