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> Is this abstract intentionally ironic or not? Bullshit in this include “social structural factors”,“part of a speech community”,”practice of bullshitting” “bu
by csa 5y ago
> Is this abstract intentionally ironic or not? Bullshit in this include “social structural factors”,“part of a speech community”,”practice of bullshitting” “bullshitting backfires”.
They are all very real.
The first three are standard aspects of a linguistic/speech community.
The fourth, as described, is specific to BS communities. That said, the phenomenon of linguistic artifacts falling in and out of speech communities is a thing, and this is sort of what he is talking about (maybe if viewed at a higher level of abstraction).
I’ve done research on speech communities, and I’ve also seen ”professional BS speech communities in action. It’s a sight to see.
- cgio 5y agoFrom the article itself, value prop, first moved advantage, proactive technology, paralellization. Leading edge-solutions. These are also pretty common terms in business/technology. The fact that someone cut proposition to prop may be a bit pretentious but not bullshit. The first moved looks like it is a first mover advantage and indicates that whoever was intimidated by these terms was probably not part of the “community”.( I don’t know what to think of a linguist who writes “leading edge-solution”… and “paralellization”?)These terms are not just common but also easily understood in my opinion, even outside the specific domain and less pretentious than “practice of bullshitting” when all you want to say is “bullshitting”. Who knows, maybe I am a bullshitter too and just in denial…
- starbugs 5y agoFelt the same when reading these examples. I am afraid we just got used to it.
- cgio 5y agoI am afraid it is true to some extent… but then again this article made me feel a bit better about my condition: I will argue that bullshitting is triggered by a speech community with many conceptual entrepreneurs, significant amounts of noisy ignorance and permissive uncertainty. These conditions are likely to spark the language game of bullshitting You could not make it up, writing an article about bullshit and arguing about “conceptual entrepreneurs”, “noisy ignorance”, “permissive uncertainty”, “language game”. This made my day.