Confusing Discourse by K. Janicki

By K. Janicki

We simply pay attention and spot whilst everyone is speaking and writing, yet we regularly don't realize what they're conversing or writing approximately . This booklet addresses a few assets of bewilderment in discourse and provides feedback for diminishing it.

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Here we are 38 Picture 14 Picture 15 Learning New Words 39 likely to experience some hesitation, indecision, and maybe sometimes a measure of irritation. We are dealing here not with typical examples of things to be referred to but with borderline cases. When we confront borderline examples, our use of words, labels, or symbols may be wobbly. For some people Picture 13 depicts what they will still label as a ‘shoe’; for others, it will not be a ‘shoe’. The label these latter people will probably use is ‘music shoe’, while still others will have no special label for Picture 13 at all.

Were the profane expressions in the first half of nineteenth century like the contemporary ones? If not, what were they? Give examples. ) the myriad tangible experiences standing behind words. It seems to me that only when we consciously concentrate on the multitude of experiences (of the author and reader) associated with the words used, can we appreciate the vagueness of meaning, the misunderstandings and the confusions that may be associated with reading texts, especially texts produced many years ago and in geographical locations far away from where we ourselves have lived.

Do we know what ‘truth’ refers to? Do we really understand the above explanation of the meaning of ‘truth of reasons’ in the sense that we really know what is being talked about? Do we really know what the referents (distant as they may be) of the ‘truth of fact’ are? Answers to all these questions will most likely be negative. Take yet another example: Text 6 – Semiotics is therefore a mode of thought where science sees itself as (is conscious of itself as) a theory. At every instant of its production, semiotics thinks of its objects, its instruments and the relation between them, and in so doing thinks (of) itself: as a result of this reflection, it becomes the theory of the very science it constitutes.

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