Hi Lourdes Adriana!
Yes, and also in Chile: you have the amazing Fernando Flores, a man who
applies speech acts in a very useful way!
Reading the work of Fernando Flores is how I ended up paying much more
attention to linguistics...
Kind Regards,
Dan
Related Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Flores
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09406?pg=all
"We human beings are linguistic, social, emotional animals that
co-invent a world through language," says Flores. "That means that
reality is not formed by objects."
On 10/26/13 2:16 PM, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring wrote:
Thank you for sharing your readings. We have an important author in
spanish from Chile Echeverria he wrote a book called Ontologia del
lenguage about the same topic.
2013/10/26 Daniel Mezick <d...@newtechusa.net <mailto:d...@newtechusa.net>>
Howdy Harrison,
This background story on the "wonderful internal contradiction"
does explain the curiously dissonant sentence structure of "Be
prepared to be surprised."
"Be prepared to be surprised" is a directive, a structure that is
dissonant and might even be in conflict with the concepts of
self-management, self-governance, self-organization et al.
I have been studying, arranging and facilitating OST meetings for
over 5 years, and I just noticed this curious fact for the 1st time.
Probably something to do with the books I'm reading lately.
And this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin
Austin pointed out that we use language to /do/ things as well as
to /assert/ things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I
promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as /doing/ something
--- /making a promise/ --- rather than making an assertion about
anything. Hence the name of one of his best-known works: "How to
do Things with Words".
Kind Regards,
Dan
On 10/26/13 11:38 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
you couldnt, because you are already dead
mmp
On 26.10.2013 17:35, Harrison Owen wrote:
Actually Dan -- it is and always has been a serious joke, with
(I think)
a wonderful internal contradiction. If you were really prepared
to be
surprised, you couldn't be surprised... or could you J
ho
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When responding to Jenifer's thoughts earlier, I realized:
The slogan "Be Prepared to Be Surprised" is a most interesting
one in OST.
It is actually an illocutionary speech act.... of type
"*/Directive/*".
So, located here in OST, baked into it, we have a specific
slogan that
is attempting to *cause* the hearer to take a particular action,
e.g. a
request, *commands* and advice. A directive!
I wonder if the undeniably directive structure of "Be Prepared
to Be
Surprised" really aligned with the intention/spirit/philosophy
of OST.
Dan
Background links:
What is a speech act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts
A */speech act/* in linguistics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics> and the philosophy of
language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language> is an
utterance that has performative function in language and
communication.
What is an illocutionary act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act
*Illocutionary act* is a term in linguistics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics> introduced by the
philosopher
John L. Austin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin> in his
investigation of the various aspects of speech acts
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>.
What is a Directive illocutionary act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act#Classes_of_illocutionary_acts
*directives* = speech acts that are to *cause the hearer to take a
particular action*, e.g. requests, commands and advice
More than you asked for:
What is a Commissive speech act?
*commissives* = speech acts that commit a speaker to some future
action,
e.g. promises and oaths
On 10/24/13 1:29 PM, Jenifer Toksvig wrote:
Dan wrote: >> Consider the man who loves a certain woman,
and waits
for the current trend of her interest in him to change. He
is goal
seeking without controlling. Likewise, trend-following market
traders do not attempt to create, control or make trends. They
simply identify & ride them, while seeking wealth. <<
Waiting and seeking are still forms of controlling. Your
loving man
has chosen to wait for his goal rather than (to coin a
phrase) being
prepared to be surprised by another woman. He may not be
trying to
control her, but he's still trying to control the situation
in a way
that he thinks will allow him to achieve his goal.
Those who seek wealth do likewise: they don't randomly ride the
trends, they identify them and make choices about how to
ride them,
in order to obtain wealth. That is control.
I don't think it's possible to be goal-oriented and try to
exert
some kind of control over the process, unless your goal
is... to have
no goal. Actually, even being prepared to be surprised is a
goal. A
sort of wonderfully ridiculous one.
Jen x
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