<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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..<br></div>Do you read Spanish?<br></div>Adriana<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/26 Daniel Mezick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Lourdes Adriana!<br>
<br>
Yes, and also in Chile: you have the amazing Fernando Flores, a man
who applies speech acts in a very useful way!<br>
<br>
Reading the work of Fernando Flores is how I ended up paying much
more attention to linguistics...<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
Dan<br>
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Related Links:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Flores" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Flores</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09406?pg=all" target="_blank">http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09406?pg=all</a><br>
“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."<br>
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<div>On 10/26/13 2:16 PM, Lourdes Adriana
Diaz-Berrio Doring wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/26 Daniel Mezick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>></span><br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Howdy Harrison, <br>
This background story on the "wonderful internal
contradiction" does explain the curiously dissonant
sentence structure of "Be prepared to be surprised."<br>
<br>
"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. <br>
<br>
I have been studying, arranging and facilitating OST
meetings for over 5 years, and I just noticed this curious
fact for the 1st time. <br>
<br>
Probably something to do with the books I'm reading
lately. <br>
<br>
And this guy: <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin</a><br>
Austin pointed out that we use language to <i>do</i>
things as well as to <i>assert</i> things, and that the
utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so"
is best understood as <i>doing</i> something — <i>making
a promise</i> — rather than making an assertion about
anything. Hence the name of one of his best-known works:
"How to do Things with Words".<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
Dan<br>
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<div>On 10/26/13 11:38 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">you couldnt, because you are
already dead <br>
mmp <br>
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On 26.10.2013 17:35, Harrison Owen wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Actually Dan – it is and always
has been a serious joke, with (I think) <br>
a wonderful internal contradiction. If you were really
prepared to be <br>
surprised, you couldn’t be surprised... or could you J
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When responding to Jenifer's thoughts earlier, I
realized: <br>
<br>
The slogan "Be Prepared to Be Surprised" is a most
interesting one in OST. <br>
<br>
It is actually an illocutionary speech act.... of type
"*/Directive/*". <br>
<br>
So, located here in OST, baked into it, we have a
specific slogan that <br>
is attempting to *cause* the hearer to take a
particular action, e.g. a <br>
request, *commands* and advice. A directive! <br>
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I wonder if the undeniably directive structure of "Be
Prepared to Be <br>
Surprised" really aligned with the
intention/spirit/philosophy of OST. <br>
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Dan <br>
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Background links: <br>
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What is a speech act? <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts</a>
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A */speech act/* in linguistics <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics></a>
and the philosophy of <br>
language <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language></a>
is an <br>
utterance that has performative function in language
and communication. <br>
<br>
What is an illocutionary act? <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act</a>
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*Illocutionary act* is a term in linguistics <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics></a>
introduced by the philosopher <br>
John L. Austin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin></a>
in his <br>
investigation of the various aspects of speech acts <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts></a>.
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What is a Directive illocutionary act? <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act#Classes_of_illocutionary_acts" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act#Classes_of_illocutionary_acts</a>
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*directives* = speech acts that are to *cause the
hearer to take a <br>
particular action*, e.g. requests, commands and advice
<br>
<br>
More than you asked for: <br>
What is a Commissive speech act? <br>
*commissives* = speech acts that commit a speaker to
some future action, <br>
e.g. promises and oaths <br>
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On 10/24/13 1:29 PM, Jenifer Toksvig wrote: <br>
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Dan wrote: >> Consider the man who loves a
certain woman, and waits <br>
for the current trend of her interest in him to
change. He is goal <br>
seeking without controlling. Likewise,
trend-following market <br>
traders do not attempt to create, control or make
trends. They <br>
simply identify & ride them, while seeking
wealth. << <br>
<br>
Waiting and seeking are still forms of
controlling. Your loving man <br>
has chosen to wait for his goal rather than (to
coin a phrase) being <br>
prepared to be surprised by another woman. He may
not be trying to <br>
control her, but he’s still trying to control the
situation in a way <br>
that he thinks will allow him to achieve his goal.
<br>
<br>
Those who seek wealth do likewise: they don’t
randomly ride the <br>
trends, they identify them and make choices about
how to ride them, <br>
in order to obtain wealth. That is control. <br>
<br>
I don’t think it’s possible to be goal-oriented
and try to exert <br>
some kind of control over the process, unless your
goal is… to have <br>
no goal. Actually, even being prepared to be
surprised is a goal. A <br>
sort of wonderfully ridiculous one. <br>
<br>
Jen x <br>
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