Transgenerating Across the Curriculum

Dear Language-ers and Colleagues

What do we talk about when we talk
about how we talk when we
talk about talking?

Talking School Mode here, not the Politics
of Church & State Modes. .

(Merely fooling around with Some Ways
of Talk Talking Across the Curriculum &
the Dominant Paradigms Pressing and
Oppressing how we Just Get Along
for the Sake of Argument.) .

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Imagine: modeling [representing] a conversation,
a class discussion: the House of US “performing”
linguistically: talking to each other, arguing,
agreeing, questioning.

Schematize: make a flow chart standing for
converse-action—poster, bullet presentation,
overhead projection..

This would be like how how I rationalize the
irrational, how I interpret dreams, how I
explain what happened, how I demystify
mystery: I stick in a thumb, pull out a
plum and say o what a good
boy am I.

Listen to the Sound of Textbook
(if you've got ears to hear):

“Speaking and comprehending speech can be viewed
as a speech chain, a kind of “brain-to-brain” linking…
There are mechanisms that enable us to break the
continuous stream of speech sounds into linguistic
units such as phonemes, syllables, and words in order
to comprehend and to compose sounds into words in
order to produce meaningful speech. Other mechanisms
determine how we pull words from a mental lexicon,
and still others explain how we construct a phase
structure representation of the words we retrieve.”

In order to in order to in order to:
imagine a Linguist talking speech-
chain talk to Helen Keller:. It
would be oppressive.

Imagine a road-trip to Santa Cruz modeled & described
in terms of what-goes-on throughout the mechanical
system of your internal combustion SUV and
claiming that does the trick!

That's what happened!

Consider the experience of a piece of coffee cake—or
better— white sugar jelly donut: its bilabial, inter-dental,
alveolar & palatal accommodation, glottal engorged
and shipped down below toward one’s intestinal,
digestive & eliminative systems etc.

I'm merely sampling the steps-of-linear-journey:
a pilgrim's progress from start to finish--beginnings,
middles and endings--with the same excruciating
materialistic description as our rational description
of the irrational mystery of converse action & the
ways we talk about Hap.

“Brain-to-Brain linkage”

Is that what’s happening here & now?
Or are you raising the dead, kissing life
into these freeze-dried samples of
mind-on-a-screen
so that I’m walking around in your
skullhouse right now, doing
my best —ecologically—to
kick the dust?

Nailing Down The
Origins of the
Universe of Converse
(found poetry)

A spoken utterance starts
as a message in the speaker’s
brain/mind.

It is put into linguistic form
and interpreted as articulation
commands, emerging as an
acoustic signal.

The signal is processed
by the listener’s ear and
sent to the brain/mind,
where it is interpreted.

You’ll notice when Linguists and associates start talking
about language and computer processing it pretty much
sounds the same as describing the lexical, phonemic,
morphophonemic, syntactical & semantic aspects and
relations in human language-ing. That’s because the computer
models the human description of process, and vice versa.



It’s a reduced mechanical, mechanistic “flatland” description
of living process—and living process is characterized by
contingency, indeterminacy, unpredictable moves.



A thorough description of automobile-ics doesn’t begin to
do justice to a road trip. A thorough description of language
doesn’t touch what’s going on in conversation ( language-ing).

The devil’s in the details, Sure.Got to pay ze sie dues.
I always need a good mechanic but
would rather drive the car,
beep & bump not with
standing..

xxxooo, Presbyter