"In The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information. This new view of language, they argue, has dramatic consequences for free speech, democracy..."
MarchCN: Exciting new grounds but to be honest? Too confusing. Can barely keep up with constant new leaps. Your college educated person over thirty can barely stay afloat with the new approaches.
Attunement to narrative. To be cognitively attuned to a narrative frame is to have a disposition to see groups of events, actors, and locations as instantiations of that frame; to be dispositionally attuned to a narrative frame is to have a tendency to behave by analogy with characters drawn from it.
Attunement to practice. An agent is attuned to a practice to the extent that their state and behavior predictably evolve in accordance with its presence in the agent’s context. [2.3] Attunement to practice (in terms of resonance). An agent is attuned to a community practice to the extent that their state and behavior tend to evolve in accord with the...