CMNS 304W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Citizen Kane, Tabula Rasa

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 304W
• Professor: Terry Neiman

Document Summary

Locutionary act the act of utterance: speaking. Illocutionary act the function one has in mind that causes them to speak: promising, reporting, asking, perlocutionary act the intended/desired result of the speech act. Cohesion (cid:858)glue(cid:859: framing to tie patterns together. John locke (english philosopher, empiricist, 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. David hume (scottish philosopher/economist, 1711 1776: argued that we understand the world through the application of empiricism. 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. A frame as a paradox (according to bateson, 184): Robin clair (prof of communication, purdue univ. : six discursive frames from sociology (based on a. giddens), accepting the dominant interests, simple misunderstanding, reification, trivialization, denotative hesitancy, public/private expression public/private domain.