Re: [-empyre-] C. S. Peirce and Code

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au>]

around the 17/10/05 Roman Danylak mentioned about Re: [-empyre-] C. 
S. Peirce and Code that:
> But its still English isn't it?

well yes, but if you want 'language' in this discussion to mean 
something as broad as "recognisable English" then of course you'd 
argue that it is no different to other writing :-)

I write a hypertext hypertextually. That is in a hypertext 
environment (and so don't treat hypertext as 'merely' a publication 
format). I choose to link from "I love my Mum". Should I link from 
"Mum" or "love". Believe me, which I link from *does* affect what 
gets and is written at the destination (I have done this with 
students for 10 years), I don't know an equivalent 'speech act' when 
composing with a pen, or a typewriter.

Is this still English, well, a link is a performative in Austin's 
sense, but that is an effect of language, not English. Is it a 
different writing? Yes, absolutely. Is writing mathematics different 
to writing English? Probably, are they different 'languages', well in 
your argument (if I have got it right) no, since they can both be 
read in English perfectly reasonably.

I think for most in this discussion language is weighted to sense and 
affect (as writer and reader), perhaps your question is more to 
commonality of architecture?
--
cheers
Adrian Miles

hypertext.RMIT
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