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- From: Jay Lemke <JLLBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Multiplying metaphors
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- A recent posting in the social construction discussion
- offered the comment that there are a number of paradigmatic
- ways, in European culture at least, to construe the nature
- of anything (wasn't Aristotle always saying the same thing?),
- such as mechanism, formalism, etc. What particularly interested
- me was the suggestion that it is very hard to operate with
- more than one of these at a time. For the most part they are
- disjunctive discourses in our culture, and it does take a
- pretty dialectical approach to play them fruitfully off
- against one another. Anyone seriously interested in how
- sophisticated social constructivism deals with issues of
- material phenomena might like to take a look at a paper
- I recently did on the relation of semiotics and the
- social construction of meaning to the dynamics of the
- complex material ecological and social systems in which
- the exercise of meaning-making is necessarily embedded.
-
- For a limited time only, I will offer the paper by
- email (request Cultural Dynamics paper), since its
- publication date is still, in the nature of these things,
- a ways off.
-
- FYI, my doctorate and early research was in theoretical physics,
- and I have worked for many years in the fields of social
- semiotics, discourse analysis, and linguistic text semantics.
-
-
- JAY LEMKE.
- City University of New York.
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