Applying interactionist discourse theory to show how we create
novel beliefs ""
"Inventive Intercourse: From Rhetorical Conflict to the Ethical
Creation of Novel Truth "offers a theory of discursive interaction,
illustrating how we can understand human communication without
resorting to the notion of language. Using the perspective of
interactionist discourse theory, author Stephen Yarbrough
investigates how we create novel beliefs, beliefs we could not have
inferred from our established beliefs.
The volume considers a central dilemma of post-modern thought:
If language is a system of conventions and rules that limit what we
can say and think, how can we deliberately produce anything truly
novel? While postmodernism concludes that linguistic and conceptual
change within our incommensurable worlds is driven by contingency
and blind mechanical forces, Yarbrough argues that this view is
wrong because the notion that language mediates our perception is
wrong.
Beginning with philosopher Donald Davidson's assertion that
"there is no such thing as language" in the sense of a system of
conventions and rules, Yarbrough develops an interactionist theory
of discourse and uses it to revise the major elements of
Aristotelian rhetoric to explain how we deliberately invent novel
concepts that we come to believe.
Yarbrough suggests that all conceptual change is initiated by a
shift in our ethical apperception of elements of a situation and
that an ethical change will have emotional consequences. Changes in
our emotional responses to things will change the ways we interact
with them, he says, and changes in our interaction with things will
create new technical relations which we can communicate to others
only by altering our habitual shared way of using signs, metaphors,
and other tropes.
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