[OSList] : Speech acts

Michael M Pannwitz mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 08:38:52 PDT 2013


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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> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Mezick
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:18 AM
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> *Subject:* [OSList] : Speech acts
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> 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.
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> 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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>     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
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