Response to Linnea

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I agree with you that Chilton's new book is very
stimulating so far.

I am trying to understand Chilton’s claim based on a
recent well-publicized example.
Last week a girl in the six-grade stabbed another girl in
her class to death during lunch time in Japan, and this
unprecedented incident has been reported from various
perspectives. On her web page, the killer had published a
poem that stresses the importance of preserving lives in
nature. Experts, who are investigating the cause of this
deadly event,  say that the way the girl wrote the poem,
that is, taking a politically-correct view as if it were
her own, show her dangerous mental situation.

First, the killer was a hearer of the discourse about
preserving lives in nature. She agreed on it or pretended
to do so, and wrote the poem. But her murder of another
girl shows that her common ground was not affected by the
need for the hearer to (at least
temporarily) accommodate the speaker's ideology. Or was
it?  I will rethink and respond later.

Noriko

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