[OSList] : Speech acts

Daniel Mezick dan at newtechusa.net
Sat Oct 26 10:27:07 PDT 2013 

Yes, and I now understand how the 1 law, the 5 principles, the bumblebee 
role, the butterfly role, the slogan "be prepared"... all that 
stuff....all state the obvious, just in case it's not so obvious all the 
time it's being stated. Presumably the posters serve as reminders, in 
case anyone forgets.

On 10/26/13 11:35 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:
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> 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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> 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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