[OSList] : Speech acts

Sat Oct 26 09:57:21 PDT 2013

Linda: Yes but haven't you noticed that Dan is different? Be prepared to be
surprised with him around!
Adriana

2013/10/26 Linda Stevenson <stevenson8899 at msn.com>

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
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> 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
> *www.acompletelossforwords.com
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> *The Copenhagen Interpretation
> *www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk
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