[lit-ideas] Re: Language, Justice and Social Practices (long)

Walter wrote, concerning teaching an illiterate deaf person to play chess:

However it is that she identifies
the one set of inferential relations (concept) from the other and
differentiates between them I would call a naming procedure.


Eric: This has been the most difficult thing for me in the discussion, since I tend to think of "naming" as involving symbol and referent within a framing context.

In the case of the illiterate deaf person playing chess, they would presumably see a pawn as a shape-location and generalize that this shape-location is a "type" of chess piece.

About metonymy and framing context, I was thinking of a waiter working in a restaurant, who says to the chef, "The nonsmoking table is hungry." They are using metonymy (nonsmoking table) governed by framing context (restaurant with smoking and nonsmoking sections).

Could it be that "pawn" is similar? Take a kingside attack against an opponent's castled position. So P-R6 (h5-h6) = a metonymy (pawn for all pawns in all positions, i.e., the pure potential pawn) governed by a framing context (e.g., the rook pawn advancing on the opponents fianchettoed kingside)?

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