[OSList] : Speech acts

Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring adriana at diazberrio.com
Sat Oct 26 21:13:38 PDT 2013


Dan : I didn't know Fernando Flores but I went this afternoon to get the
book you told us. I am starting this reading tonight..
Do you read Spanish?
Adriana


2013/10/26 Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net>

>  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>
>
>>  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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>> 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. <<
>>
>>     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
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>>     *Jenifer Toksvig
>>     *www.acompletelossforwords.com <http://www.acompletelossforwords.com><http://www.acompletelossforwords.com>
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>>     *The Copenhagen Interpretation
>>     *www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk
>>     <http://www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk><http://www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk>
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