[OSList] : Speech acts
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 07:11:45 PDT 2013
Thanks Linda,
now I understand that they always grin or smile at me, participants are
so damn clever!
cheers
mmp
On 26.10.2013 16:02, Linda Stevenson wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
>
> "Be prepared to be surprised" along with the OST "principles" is
> *descriptive *of what participants might notice in Open Space. You
> could think of it as a "heads up" or a reminder that nobody knows
> specifically what is going to go up on the wall (nor what specific
> outcomes and next steps will emerge). General outcomes, yes, like
> emergent visions, creative collaboration, genuine community, serious
> learning and play, etc. but not specific ones, hence the element of
> surprise.
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> In twenty years of facilitating Open Space I have never seen any one
> interpret it as a directive, just a reminder which not only applies to
> OST but also to life itself.
>
> All the best,
> Linda
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> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:17:38 -0400
> From: dan at newtechusa.net
> To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> Subject: [OSList] : Speech acts
>
> When responding to Jenifer's thoughts earlier, I realized:
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> The slogan "Be Prepared to Be Surprised" is a most interesting one in OST.
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> It is actually an illocutionary speech act.... of type "*/Directive/*".
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> 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!
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> I wonder if the undeniably directive structure of "Be Prepared to Be
> Surprised" really aligned with the intention/spirit/philosophy of OST.
>
> Dan
>
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> Background links:
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> What is a speech act?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts
> A /*speech act*/ in linguistics
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics> and the philosophy of
> language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language> is an
> utterance that has performative function in language and communication.
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> 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> introduced by the philosopher
> 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>.
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> 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
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> 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:
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> Re: [OSList] The OST Game 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. <<
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jen x
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> *Jenifer Toksvig
> *www.acompletelossforwords.com <http://www.acompletelossforwords.com>
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> *The Copenhagen Interpretation
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> <http://www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk>
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