Response to Linnea

[Linnea Micciulla]

Noriko,

That's a really interesting example. Clearly, people are able to lie, and
express things they don't believe, even in a poetic/artistic way. We even
take on personas; professional actors can go from playing saints to playing
killers without, presumably, being affected themselves by these roles.

I think maybe the effect of forcing hearers to adopt presuppositions that
require a change of ideology is powerful partly because it involves
subconscious levels.  And if the same presuppositions are used over and
over in a variety of media formats, forming part of the public common
ground, then I can see how they would become natural - not only
unquestioned, but perhaps even unquestionable without another shift in
ideology/context.

Linnea

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:44:54 +0900, =?ISO-2022-JP?B?
GyRCP3k/ORsoQiAbJEJFNTtSGyhC?= <n_sugimori at YAHOO.CO.JP> wrote:

>I agree with you that Chilton's new book is very
>stimulating so far.
>
>I am trying to understand Chilton $B!G (Bs 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
>
>Noriko Sugimori
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