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- Title
The gap between instruction (plan) and situated action: A challenge to semiotics?
- Authors
Roth, Wolff-Michael
- Abstract
In this study, I describe a potential challenge to semiotics, which exists in the fact that no interpretation of an instruction (text) can get us closer to doing what the instructional text describes. I provide a praxeological description of a situation in a software development firm where the instructions (rules) for a particular type of meeting are inscribed on the whiteboard in front of which the meetings were held. I discuss the gap between instructions and the behavior they describe and the moral order of praxis that is not inscribed in instructions.
- Subjects
SEMIOTICS; WHITEBOARDS; RULES
- Publication
Semiotica, 2018, Vol 2018, Issue 221, p1
- ISSN
0037-1998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/sem-2016-0084