thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-24, David Berg wrote:
Vincent, gotcha. It seems like we need three terms: (1) for speech that attempts to affect the fiction, regardless of whether or not it succeeds, (2) for speech that attempts and then, through assent, succeeds, and (3) for speech that attempts and fails through lack of assent.
It seems logical to me to have a broader term for (1), that (2) and (3) refine. Like, "X", "rejected X", and "admitted X".
I'm having trouble finding a one-word X that isn't "narration". Game speech, play speech, and performative speech are fairly clear but unwieldy. Contribution, assertion, and input are convenient but unclear. Anyone got better ideas?
Alternative idea: don't discuss the talking, just discuss the dynamics of assent. "Unmediated narration" would become "pure assent dependence" or some such. Sounds impractical to me—most of us tend to like talking about the talking—but maybe worth a mention.
