“…Communication researchers have examined aspects of adult bullying that include the challenges it presents for communication scholars (Pörhölä, Karhunen, & Rainivaara, 2006), U.S. prevalence and effect on witnesses (Lutgen-Sandvik et al, 2007), resistance to abuse (Lutgen-Sandvik, 2006), antibullying policy development (Bandow & Hunter, 2008;Hatcher & McCarthy, 2002), identity work after bullying (Lutgen-Sandvik, 2008), silencing effects of employee abuse (Lutgen-Sandvik, 2003), and the emotions bullying evokes (Tracy, LutgenSandvik, & Alberts, 2006). These and other works have alluded to target sensemaking (D. Lewis, 2003; S. E. Lewis & Orford, 2005) but few have explicitly examined sensemaking foci or how such foci might constitute the phenomenon in disempowering ways for those targeted.…”