[OSList] : Speech acts
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 07:57:05 PDT 2013
Dear Adriana,
I just had a look at the little map that Dan included in his mail with
the subject line "Quebec City by the way of Sherbrooke" and it seemed to
me that Drummondville might be closest place to Montreal AND Annick
Corriveau lives in Drummondville, she is on the world map, look here
> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?p_id=728&country_name=Canada&c_id=34
she probably knows the best place to meet in Drummondville and who
knows, wants to join you and Dan. A little Stammtisch.
In case you meet Dan on his trip in Drummondville, I would love to hear
about it.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
On 27.10.2013 05:17, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring wrote:
> Micheal: DO you mean Drummondville in Quebec or is it another place
> called like this?
> Adriana
>
>
> 2013/10/26 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com
> <mailto:mmpannwitz at gmail.com>>
>
> This puzzled me and still puzzles me: The notion that we open space.
> I always stumble over it when I hear someone saying that. Why is
> that done?
> In my frame, I just call it: I make an introduction.
> And sometimes I say: The sponsor opens the space (does a 3-Minute
> whatever) and then introduces me to the crowd, best by saying: and
> here is Michael.
> I did this once when I was sponsor and introduced Harrison as
> facilitator by saying "And here is Harrison" and sat down. It dawned
> on him in about 3 seconds that he was on.
> The role of the facilitator, another grand question for Utrecht.
> And all of you who find it too far away: This is actually the reason
> why we do the European OSonOS in the years when WOSonOS is simply
> too far away for some... and for some years now for me, too.
> So next year, when it is in Belgrade, there will be no "European"
> OSonOS... hold it, be prepared to be surprised.
>
> Love that invitation that Dan extended... Drummondville seems a real
> possibility.
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
> On 26.10.2013 20:26, Harrison Owen wrote:
>
> Dan you are totally correct. The sentence structure is a mess. I
> knew
> that when I said it, and said it intentionally... to make a point:
> “Opening” an OST is a serious joke. It is serious because useful
> good
> stuff happens, and it is a joke because we don’t really open
> anything.
> It already is (open). What we do do is playfully remind people
> of what
> they already know, but may have forgotten. Emphasis:
> _play_fully. Law,
> Principles, and Final Admonition, all best done with a smile J
>
> ho
>
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> 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
> <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
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> *Subject:* [OSList] : Speech acts
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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
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>
> A */speech act/* in linguistics
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__Linguistics
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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>>
> <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
> <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>>
> <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>>
> <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>>
> <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
> <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
>
>
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>
> 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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