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<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 3pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">
<P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 39.05pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid blue 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 3.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Arial><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">"I approach the question of learning indirectly in terms of the more general and in a sense more fundamental question of the performativity of texts or, in critical realist terms...their causal effects on nonsemiotic elements of the material, social, and mental worlds and the conditions of possibility for the performativity of texts.(p. 225)" </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 3.05pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid blue 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 3.0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Arial>Though I can't claim to know what Norm means by "performativity of texts" -- apparently not "peforrmance" -- nor "the conditions of possibility for the performativity of texts" -- apparently not "competence" -- I would assert that it <STRONG>cannot</STRONG> have "effects on <STRONG>nonsemiotic</STRONG> elements" much less <STRONG>"causal"</STRONG> ones; and that in any case that is <STRONG>not</STRONG> what I would define as ?the question of learning?, which is surely <STRONG>semiotic</STRONG> in every sense.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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