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 <d...@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 > > Harrison Owen > > 7808 River Falls Dr. > > Potomac, MD 20854 > > USA > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > > Camden, Maine 04843 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > www.openspaceworld.com <www.openspaceworld.com%20> > > www.ho-image.com <www.ho-image.com%20> (Personal Website) > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > *From:*oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org > [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org<oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org>] > *On Behalf Of *Daniel Mezick > *Sent:* Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:18 AM > *To:* oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > *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 > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. 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