Interrelating Emotive Interjections in Response to Integrative Failure

Explores configuration of interjections using a traditional Chinese binary coding system.

Annex of Harmonising the configuration of pattern-breaking interjections and expletives (2010)

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Introduction

This Annex is primarily focused on the nature of interjections and the possibility of clustering with the aid of a binary coding system. The approach is therefore exploratory and indicative of possibilities. A binary approach is used here as a basis for a richer framework developed subsequently (Discovering Richer Patterns of Comprehension to Reframe Polarization, 1998). The concern is to identify more fundamental distinctions to clarify the nature of any more complex configuration of the qualities associated with any array of interjections. The approach offers a means of filtering cognitive modalities into a pattern.

As noted there, the response to contemporary politics and world affairs, felt to be meaningful under the circumstances, now increasingly takes the form of brief expressions, variously termed interjections, exclamations, ejaculations, expletives or invective. Such responses are typically used when any appropriate reaction is held to be "beyond words" -- and thereby acknowledging a "netherworld" of which many are obliged to be aware as the language of "real people" (Designing Global Self-governance for the Future: patterns of dynamic integration of the netherworld, 2010). Given the effective failure of the integrative approaches (associated with inter-disciplinarity, interfaith, multicultural, etc), interjection might also be understood as their "shadow" of unfulfilled potential -- in the psychological sense.

It is of course the case that in the Westminster parliamentary tradition, it is members of the "Shadow Cabinet" that are both source and focus for pattern-breaking interjections in relation to those speaking on behalf of the government. It ishowever noteworthy that, whatever the mode, interjections are typically edited out of official records of debate -- as unparliamentary language relative to parliamentary language (lingua legislata). This would tend to confirm their role in pattern-breaking.

The reference in the main paper to harmony in a musical sense highlights the fundamental challenge of constraints on human comprehension and the implications for tuning systems and associated musical scales (diatonic, chromatic, whole tone, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic). In the effort to interrelate the set of interjections as an integrative patterm a relation is established here to Chinese binary coding of distinctions and its relevance to tone quality -- and potentially to the "tone" of interjection.

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