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The Eighteen Convergent Patterns

2. Pre-naming to preempt misread

The architecture is published in advance, so that a conflict-point has something to refer back to instead of requiring invention in the moment. The source records this as consistent across romantic, philosophical, professional and analytical-collaboration contexts rather than concentrated in any one of them.

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

Semiotic

Austin’s performative speech-acts that constitute states of affairs by being uttered.

Austin

Why this lens appears here

Peirce · Saussure · Barthes · Austin

Hermeneutic

Gadamer’s fore-structures of understanding deliberately constructed in advance.

Gadamer

Why this lens appears here

Gadamer · Ricoeur · Schleiermacher

Discourse-analytic

Halliday’s interpersonal-metafunction priority over ideational.

Halliday

Why this lens appears here

Halliday · Fairclough · Wodak

Pedagogical-developmental

Schön’s reflection-in-anticipation.

Schön

Why this lens appears here

Vygotsky · Freire · Schön · Kolb · Dweck