CMNS 304W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meta-Communication, Tabula Rasa
2 Nov 2017
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Illocutionary act the function one has in mind that causes them to speak: [speaking, promising, reporting, asking. Perlocutionary act the intended/desired result of the speech act: intimidating, threatening, deceiving. The five general functions of speech acts (following searle 1979)[taken from yule 1996] 1632 1704) claimed that the mind begins as a blank slate (tabula rasa), and all our sense impressions are recorded as the basis for all human knowledge. 1711 1776) argued that we understand the world through the application of empiricism . Immanual kant (german philosopher, 1724 : in critique of pure reason, argues that our sense impressions are supplemented by something. A kind of knowledge that is prior to experience, called knowledge a priori . These actions, in which we now engage, do not denote what would be denoted by those actions which these actions denote. (bateson, Metacommunication is highly developed in humans at the levels of: play, threats, histrionics (dramatization/deceit)
