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> I would say a shared linguistic domain is one where language can become
> commensurable, where meaning can be transported across vocabularies and
> where differences can meet to create new linguistic possibilities that
> didn't exist before.
>
> A methodology for achieving a shared linguistic domain, in my useage, will
> be one which establishes practices and structures which can be agreed to
> which provide the "field of play" for a dialogue which can accomplish the
> above results. The agreements, understandings and/or structures will be
> those which are concerned with the domain rather than the result to be
> produced in that domain.
...and won't they all be, themselves, entirely nonverbal in nature? Is a
shared linguistic domain itself a linguistic thing? I've assumed not. I
suppose it could be. What I'm having trouble with, in your formulation, is
that it seems self-referential in a potentially damaging way. But I
haven't got anything better to suggest, either.
Could you expand the last sentence above? I was in a situation today
that could have been a negative instance of that.
Regards
jamzen@world.std.com
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