Reddy – The Conduit Metaphor

Reddy – The Conduit Metaphor The figurative assertion that communication works by embedding thoughts and feelings in speech and physically transferring them from speaker to hearer. Get thoughts across, idea of what you’re thinking, hollow words, impenetrable remarks Saussure – person sending stuff over to other person’s head, and it continues The speech circuit = an audition and phonation cycle Toolmaker’s Paradigm Only receive instructions, use own interpretation and decode Like English – gaining meaning as wholes, forgetting interpretative work to understand Hearer/Listener orientation Opacity of other minds – believe other minds are inaccessible = interpreting their thoughts Lies – begins when young, later starts to suspect lies (questions about what is true) Changing expressions and complexity of words to obscure mind into listening more / leaning in Writing as a model for what speech is Some ways of speaking are better than others Monolingualism is norma/natural Communication = packing thoughts into words and sending them over to hearers to unwrap Enfield SEMISIS – meaning making Chain if signifying actions , incorporates saurssan, indexical, icon A – agent (person who is actively doing something) S – sign (actions, words, expressions, tone of voice that is perceptible) O-Object that the sign is referring to I – interpreat, whatever meaning as next sign (take something as something else) Ex. Two people eating A1 S1 – the chicken is bland S2 – grab salt (revelvance) or ask if want salt, etc. I1 – thank you Ex. S1- hears someone say how was the movie S2 – thumbs up or it was good I1 – what made it good, or questioning the relevance if it was good “Conventional machine” - builds on humans’ special attunement to what others think, feel, mean, are trying to do Cognition for language is intrinsically dialogic = ongoing cycle of communication Conversation calls upon participants to make a moral commitment = interactions in listening to speakers (ex. Teachers) connects emotions to it Language use is a cooperative activity = being in a “with” Ex. Walking together with a person as a with. Randomly speeding up = immoral ●​ Turn-taking in work ●​ Project/anticipate at multiple scales “preliminary work” in place formulation ●​ Correct to maintain the with or excuse to withdraw from it