The Key Points of Speech Act Theory

I found one of the best summaries of the points of Speech Act Theory in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language.
visible off campus here.
Devitt, Michael, and Richard Hanley. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Pub, 2006. Internet resource.


It also mentions P.F. Strawson who I was excited to learn thought "most illocutionary acts involve not an intention to conform to an institutional convention but an intention to communicate something to an audience". Unfortunately, after further investigation , it appears his research was not going into a direction that would be useful in the creation of a logical structure based on linguistics. 

"there is no requirement to map ordinary language onto artificial logical structures, nor does that capture ordinary meaning anyway. "  
-Strawson (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strawson/#Lan)
"his slogan that ordinary language has no precise logic". 
-Strawson  (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strawson/#Lan)

Metafiction

Interacting with the audience might be the direction for the next act.

B. J. Novak’s ‘Book With No Pictures’ and More
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/b-j-novaks-book-with-no-pictures-and-more.html?_r=0


Metafiction is a literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work's status as an artifact. It poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony and self-reflection. It can be compared to presentational theatre, which does not let the audience forget it is viewing a play; metafiction forces readers to be aware that they are reading a fictional work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction


Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and often is (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era. Postmodern works are seen as a response against dogmatic following of Enlightenment thinking and Modernist approaches to literature.^[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature

Poststructuralism vs Uncertainty???

The performative function of every element of a scene could be broken down into locution, illocution, and perlocution and analyzed through the performative formula (i.e. every line of text, piece of wardrobe, set element, camera angle, character’s form, the lighting, and so on). At this point I think it would be most productive to look at each scene, and analyze the components as necessary. 

Poststructural slippage between signifier and signified pokes holes in the concept of 

Once again I am butting heads with Poststructuralism...
I think there might be an analytical in Heisenberg...

When physicists ran into a dual meaning problem, they didn't abandon structure, attempts at reductivity, and attempts at objectivity; they mapped the likelihood of the variable.
In the end everything is uncertain; Decartes, the quantum level, and semantics. Science is driven by imperfect people, and it's successes are judged by imperfect people, but that is not a reason to abandon efforts toward progress.

New Terminology
Metafunctions are systemic clusters; that is, they are groups of semantic systems that make meanings of a related kind. The three metafunctions are mapped onto the structure of the clause. For this reason, systemic linguists analyse a clause from three perspectives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafunction


P.S. The shot at the end of the Ted Talk is an interesting example of one of the Transforming Dramatic Performative Formulas I am working on. In this case, there is no narrative, so it it doesn't serve to align the audience with a protagonist. I am not sure what to make of it...

Dr. Seuss

Anapestic tetrameter is the rhyming pattern of Dr. Seuss.

Theodor Geisel wrote Green Eggs and Ham because of a bet with his publisher (Bennett Serf) that he could not write a book using only 50 words.
He wrote The cat in the Hat with 225 words from a 1st grade vocabulary list in an attempt to "kill off the tedious Dick-and-Jane primers of the 1950s" (Kantrowitz 68). Suffering from creative block, he started with the title, which came from the first two words he found that rhymed.


A Reason for His Rhymes
Kantrowitz, Barbara. "A Reason for His Rhymes: the Real Dr. Seuss Wanted Children to Love Reading Books." Newsweek. (2000): 68. Print.

more about Dr. Seuss' method in Dr. Seuss: Rhymes & Reasons

"Dr. Seuss: Rhymes & Reasons." Biography. Writ. Peter Jones and Brian Tessier Dir. Mark A. Catalena and Brian Tessier A&E Television Networks. Peter Jones Productions, November 2003. 

Terminology

Terminology

Philosophical Framework

• Expositive - clarifying of reasons, arguments, and communications (Austin 162) 
• Utterance - string of words (Austin 76) in relation to my application - an aspect of the form with communicative properties (as separate from the intended message, interpretation, or psychological response) 
• Constative Utterance - relays information without eliciting a reaction or response; statement of fact (Austin 46) (Austin doubts possible the possibility; When and why does one give information without reception? (Austin 109) This term is much more valid in the context of a book, movie, or video game, because you can use the communicative elements of the medium separate from the discourse of the narrative. For example you can give the page number, the menu of a game, or the credits without it having any emotional reception. 
• Performative Utterance - performing of an action; not simply passively describing reality, but they are changing the reality they are describing (psychologically/socially) (Austin 19) • Performative Formula – The transformation of a constative utterance to a performative utterance (to make explicit) (Austin 33) 
•  Locution - the full units of speech (Austin 94) 
• Illocution - concerned with the communicative effect (Austin 94) 
• Perlocution - concerned with the result (Austin 94) 

Philosophical FrameworkAustin, J L. How to Do Things with Words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. Print.

Cinematography

• dutch angle (Barsam 213)
• Dolly-Zoom
• Shot/reverse shot (Barsam 491)
• Self-reflexivity -"The quality of a form that reflects, mirrors, and even critiques itself" (Barsam 490) 

Barsam, Richard M. Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Print.

Using Parody Movies to Analyze Cinematic Phrases

I have noticed parody movies are pretty good for analyzing cinematic communication because they over emphasize typical devices for comedic effect.

Shaolin Soccer uses conventional editing techniques, but stretches the suspension of disbelief to a ridiculously unexpected extreme to mock the action film genre

The climax of Shaolin Soccer

Use of point of view editing

The cinematographer shows a series of progressively tight shots of a corner of the goal to communicate that the kicker is aiming for the tight corner and an eyeline-match cut of a look of determination to show the conflicting moral positions. This is a classic example of point of view editing.
The movie follows with separation editing (cuts between 2 or more characters to show conflicting goals). (Barsam 313)

Illocution of the Scene

explicit - the kicker (and by extension the protagonist's team) are facing a bigger problem than they are prepared for
implicit - popular action films exploit the audience's naivety

Perlocution of the Scene

explicit - the protagonist have a virtuous naivety

implicit - a sensation of humor and identification through the parallel naivety between the audience and the protagonist 

Barsam, Richard M. Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Print.

Barsam's example of separation editing is this scene from The Shining

and POV editing is this scene from The Birds

Lacan

It seems like everyone is all over the topic of the "verbal nature of subjectivity", but I have not seen anyone really grab the mixed media implications, or my Transformative Performative Function™...
I am still trying to wrap my head around Lacan's work. I don't really get most of it yet, and a lot of his writing is Freudian psychoanalytical text, but he arrives at some relevant concepts about communication and interpretation after some conjecture about the cognitive dissonance babies feel when they look in the mirror and realize they are not one with their mother's breasts.

fantasmatization - a primal architecture of representations, drives and passions in and through which the subject creates a world for itself.