Dr. Leon James 197x
Seminar
Understanding Discourse:
From Ethnosemantics to Transactional Engineering
Dr. Leon James
A systematic exploration of the four
movements of discourse: (1) Ethnosemantic Outlines (the reconstruction of taxonomic
relationships in lexical and morphoshonemic displays in ordinary talk); (2) Topic
Focus (the description of register modality mechanisms underlying the structure of
topicalization in conversation and writing); (3) Display Repetoire (a
characterization of standard cultural units of behavior and a definition of context);
(4) Constitutive Exchanges (the functional analysis of discourse as a system
of exchanges of transactional moves; the systematic analysis of transcripts of taped
conversation; the description of the structure of discourse, narratives,
story-telling, and the instructional register).
BASIC SCHEMA
LEVEL I. THE FIVE MOVEMENTS OF DISCOURSE
PREAMBLE: Understanding discourse involves its description in terms of the
following five movements:
1. Describing the taxonomic structure of ethnosemantic outlines;
2. Specifying the derivation of topic focus;
3. Analyzing the functional properties of display repertoire;
4. Exlicating the system of constitutive exchanges;
5. Presenting the basic principles of transactional engineering
DEFINITIONS:
Understanding Discourse refers to the systematic description of the processes and
mechanisms involved in the production of talk and its derivative uses in writing,
teaching, psychotherapy, and everyday mythology
Ethnosemantic Outlines characterize a cultural group; define the standard
reality; specify reciprocally ratifiable recognitions.
Topic Focus identifies boundary markers by contracting the possible set of
ethnosemantic features to a particular set; specifies the salient or appropriate features
of a setting.
Display Repertoire relates the participant to topic focus; characterizes the
individual participant; defines "personal."
Constitutive Exchanges characterize the dealings of participants; relate
participants to one another.
Transactional Engineering is the scientific application of understanding
discourse in the practical uses of talk, forms of written discourse, institutional
mechanisms of encuturation, training and instruction, therapy, counselling, and living
everyday mythology.
4.A. (i)
regulative systems
(viii) the creation of authority
(ii)natural vs.
artificial
(ix) institutional roles
(iii) Let There Be
Light!
(x) society and sub-groups
(iv) Alice in
Wonderland
(xi) economics
(v) sanctioned and
pre-established
(xii) politics
(vi) the function of
ritual
(xiii) spirituality
(vii) enculturation,
assimilation, membership
4.B. (i) the
talking contract
(v) personalizing vs. impersonalizing
(ii) turn taking
organization
(vi) reactivity, amplitude, kurtosis
(iii) the exchange of
moves
(vii) closeness of fit
(iv) role type cast
4.C. (i) initiating
something
(viii) informing
(ii) replying
(ix) justifying
(iii) legitimizing signals
(x) explaining
(iv) ratifying moves
(xi) joking
(v) dramatizing
(xii) praying
(vi) story telling
(xiii) expression
(vii) reporting
(xiv) remedying
4.D. (i) categorizing
(viii) intellectualizing
(ii) identifying
(ix) actualizing
(iii) defining
(x) the first pyramid (i+ii+iii)
(iv) describing
(xi) the second pyramid (iv+v+vi)
(v) subjectifying
(xii) the spiritual dialectic (viii+ix)
(vi) objectifying
(xiii) radicalism
(vii) particularizing
4.E. (i) adjacency pairs
(vi) alluding to something
(ii) setting up topic (identifying)
(vii) implying something
(iii) commenting
(viii) presuming something
(iv) mentioning something
(ix) types of replies
(v) referring to something
(x) move linkages
4.F. (i) the modalities of
diaplay
(vi) programming spontaneous composition
(ii) paraphrasing
(vii) the experiential modality
(iii) specifying contextual features
(viii) genre and register
(iv) the elliptical structures of
paragraphs
(ix) discourse thinking
(v) the unit of writing
(x) desocs programming
4.G. (i) parameters of exchange
modes
(x) score keeping
(ii) personality and role type
(xi) unconscious and superstitious parameters
(iii) setting features on the daily round
(xii) reciprocal reconstructions
(iv) acting and role enactment
(xiii) elevating exchanges
(v) the paradox of individual
growth
(xiv) the dyadic self
(vi) covert conversations
(xv) monocromatic exchanges
(vii) secret topics
(xvi) the dimensionalityh of spiritual existence
(viii) intermittent conversations
(xvii) the dixcovery of Sudden Memory and the
(ix) keeping track
Secrets of Actuality
5.A. (i) the minimal transactional
exchange
(vi) the unavoidability of claiming
(ii) the balancing function of remedy
(vii) the empirical description of claim management
(iii) the utilitarianism of deception
(viii) role enactment and claims
(iv) the actuality of claims
(ix) group identity and claim taxonomy
5.B. (i) SOFW: Standard Ordinary Face
Work Register
(ii) the structure of speech acts
(iii) ritual and the function of topic
(iv) Legitimizing Transactions
(v) Victimizing Transactions
(vi) the specialized standard registers
(vii) the school language
(viii) relationship dynamics
(ix) the psychomechanics of feeling
(x) institutional pragmatics and
socio-functionalism
(xi) the reconstruction of history
(xii) accounting practices
(xiii) Disagreeing Transactions
(xiv) talking without talking to each other
5.C. (i) radicalist assertions
(ix) the transcendance of resolution
(ii) the reaffirmation of contradictions
(x) the enactment of myth
(iii) the metaphysics of nothingness
(xi) the reconstruction of resolution
(iv) having a gesture with actuality
(xii) freedom and adequacy
(v) the etiology of puzzling
(xiii) the routine perfection
(vi) the functions of striving
(xiv) There is Only Understanding
(vii) radicalist objectivism
(xv) You Have Already Understood
(viii) the extinction of questions
5.D. (i) The Timing Principle
(viii) expanding time
(ii) being engaged
(ix) A ls recherche du temps perdu...
(iii) dis-engaging
(x) Indulgences and regretful orgasms
(iv) accession to Master Programmer
(xi) Principles of Navigation in the Biosphere
(v) life themes
(xii) personal
(vi) Personal History: The Centrality
Hypothesis (xiii) authenticating a record
(vii) contracting time
5.E. (i) Principles of Self-Programming
(ix) contacting another's selves
(ii) the non-consciousness of automatic
behavior (x) reciprocal personal contact
(iii) child rearing programs
(xi) reciprocal impersonal contact
(iv) enculturation programs
(xii) non-reciprocal contact
(v) the function of record keeping
(xiii) being possessed
(vi) the surrealist autobiography
(xiv) monoplastic contact (SOFW)
(vii) reintegrating personal history
(xv) bioplastic contact (Radicalist)
(viii) contacting the selves
5.F. (i) teaching as telling
(vii) SAOROGAT for education
(ii) learning as listening
(viii) DESOCS for comprehension
(iii) the learner role
(ix) SOFWR for lubricity
(iv) the teacher role
(x) the RRR's for adequacy
(v) the teaching contract
(xi) stoned thinking
(vi) the teacher's paradox
(xii) beyond sloganism
(xiii) living education
5.G. (i) people programming service
stations
(ii) role derived ideology
(iii) the delusional paranoria of
voluntariansim
(iv) the inauthentic exchange of client and
therapist
(v) authentic relationship
(vi) avoiding relationship
(vii) faith and the strategy of surrender
(viii) on being alone
(ix) understanding oneself
5.H. (i) The Sucker
(vii) daydreams and fantasies
(ii) The Con Artist
(viii) mythical themes
(iii) The Prophet
(ix) performative transactions
(iv) The Great Imposter
(x) enactology
(v) Clowning
(xi) Hunting for Secrets
(vi) Being-A-Smart-Ass
(xii) children's stories
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