Re: doing/making

KEN GOODMAN (kgoodman who-is-at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:18:27 -0700 (MST)

I agree with most of what you are saying Dewey. I focus hard in my
writing on a sense of audience and try to use examples and anecdotes that
will be meaningful to my readers. But those of us who believe that
language involves a transaction between reader and writer or listener and
speaker must be aware that we can't control what people construct as
meaning from our texts. My research on reading shows that happening all
the time.

I see a personal role in all language which I call invention and a social
role I call convention. There is a dielectic in which these act as
opposing forces in shaping meaning and language.
Ken Goodman