Tag: action-oriented linguistics

• Précis for an action-oriented theory of language

  What is a word, or message, or utterance? It is a move by an agent (~superorganism) undertaken in order to transform the environmental state, in a desired direction, by means of altering another agent’s information state. This transformation may occur directly, if the targeted slice of environment happens to be that agent whose informational state…

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  May 16, 2022

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  ACiM, action-oriented linguistics, Erving Goffman, generalized reading, language games, linguistics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pierre Bourdieu, pragmatism, strategic interaction, Thomas Schelling