[OSList] : Speech acts
Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring
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Sat Oct 26 21:17:35 PDT 2013
Micheal: DO you mean Drummondville in Quebec or is it another place called
like this?
Adriana
2013/10/26 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>
> This puzzled me and still puzzles me: The notion that we open space. I
> always stumble over it when I hear someone saying that. Why is that done?
> In my frame, I just call it: I make an introduction.
> And sometimes I say: The sponsor opens the space (does a 3-Minute
> whatever) and then introduces me to the crowd, best by saying: and here is
> Michael.
> I did this once when I was sponsor and introduced Harrison as facilitator
> by saying "And here is Harrison" and sat down. It dawned on him in about 3
> seconds that he was on.
> The role of the facilitator, another grand question for Utrecht.
> And all of you who find it too far away: This is actually the reason why
> we do the European OSonOS in the years when WOSonOS is simply too far away
> for some... and for some years now for me, too.
> So next year, when it is in Belgrade, there will be no "European"
> OSonOS... hold it, be prepared to be surprised.
>
> Love that invitation that Dan extended... Drummondville seems a real
> possibility.
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
> On 26.10.2013 20:26, Harrison Owen wrote:
>
>> Dan you are totally correct. The sentence structure is a mess. I knew
>> that when I said it, and said it intentionally... to make a point:
>> “Opening” an OST is a serious joke. It is serious because useful good
>> stuff happens, and it is a joke because we don’t really open anything.
>> It already is (open). What we do do is playfully remind people of what
>> they already know, but may have forgotten. Emphasis: _play_fully. Law,
>> Principles, and Final Admonition, all best done with a smile J
>>
>> ho
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>> 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<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
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>>
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>> *Subject:* [OSList] : Speech acts
>>
>> 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>
>> A */speech act/* in linguistics
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Linguistics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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>
>> >
>> <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<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>
>> >
>> <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>
>> >
>> <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>
>> >
>> <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<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:
>>
>> 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
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