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The Eighteen Convergent Patterns

7. Frame-correction over self-defence

When the frame slips, he corrects the frame rather than litigating his own character. The move is to return the exchange to what was actually said, not to defend the person who said it.

The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.

Read through the lenses

Hermeneutic

Gadamer’s fore-structure correction at the conversational level.

Gadamer

Why this lens appears here

Gadamer · Ricoeur · Schleiermacher

Ethical

Levinasian refusal of personal-attack frame.

Levinas

Why this lens appears here

Levinas · Care-ethics · Hyde · Murdoch

Semiotic

Frame-analysis as semiotic operation.

Why this lens appears here

Peirce · Saussure · Barthes · Austin

Discourse-analytic

Fairclough’s critical-discourse analysis applied to conversational frame-shifts.

Fairclough

Why this lens appears here

Halliday · Fairclough · Wodak