Abracadabra PART 2: Deletion and Lost Performative Deletion: Of course our verbal reports always “leave out”, delete, a tremendous amount of information. That’s in the nature of the linguistic transform, the nature of abstraction at the label levels. Yet it’s frequently important to recover significant information that has been deleted. For example: “There are dangerous times ahead”. To recover deletions, use the word “specifically”. “What dangers, specifically?” Strategic deletions are too common in political discourse: The media is a gigantic machine of both innocent and strategic forms of deletion. To read more go to radicalgeneralsemantics.websitetoolbox/post/abracadabra-part-2-deletion-and-lost-performative-7191439?pid=1285261757#post1285261757
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 02:48:43 +0000
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