Re: RE: coining phrases

Katherine Goff (Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu)
Mon, 11 May 1998 08:32:44 -0600

Phillip writes:
> yes yes yes - i'm responding from enthusiastic recognition,
>Eugene - having studied the discourse of a teacher working with fifth
>graders - and her discourse was recursive / proleptic. Highly
>intentional, cueing students into what was coming next, so that they would
>know why the present activity was important, as well as reminding students
>about from where the present activity had come from, its origins, why it
>was now 'here'.

I just ran across a reference to prolepsis from an unlikely source (well,
maybe unexpected is the more appropriate qualifier, here.)

I am reading _With A Daughter's Eye_ by Mary Catherine Bateson and she
talks about a trip to Australia that she went on with Margaret Mead (her
mother.)

MCB writes, "That lecture tour was in 1951, when I was eleven, and we must
have talked about it for a year beforehand and a year after, developing a
skill of living life threefold, in anticipation and reminiscence as well
as in the events themselves, noticing for future narrative " (p, 73).

Kathie

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