[OSList] : Speech acts
Daniel Mezick
dan at newtechusa.net
Sat Oct 26 11:31:13 PDT 2013
Hi Lourdes Adriana!
Yes, and also in Chile: you have the amazing Fernando Flores, a man who
applies speech acts in a very useful way!
Reading the work of Fernando Flores is how I ended up paying much more
attention to linguistics...
Kind Regards,
Dan
Related Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Flores
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09406?pg=all
"We human beings are linguistic, social, emotional animals that
co-invent a world through language," says Flores. "That means that
reality is not formed by objects."
On 10/26/13 2:16 PM, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring wrote:
> Thank you for sharing your readings. We have an important author in
> spanish from Chile Echeverria he wrote a book called Ontologia del
> lenguage about the same topic.
>
>
> 2013/10/26 Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net <mailto:dan at newtechusa.net>>
>
> 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
> 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
>>>
>>> ho
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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
>>> A */speech act/* in 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> 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>
>>> <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> in his
>>> investigation of the various aspects of 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
>>>
>>> *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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>>>
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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
>>>
>>> *Jenifer Toksvig
>>> *www.acompletelossforwords.com
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>>> <http://www.acompletelossforwords.com>
>>> <http://www.acompletelossforwords.com>
>>>
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