Pragmatic binary oppositions and intersubjectivity in an illegally occupied school

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This paper analyzes ethnographic data collected on a school that was illegally occupied and run by a militant working‐class community. The study focuses on the pragmatic infrastructures through which communicative acts were constructed between the participants. The infrastructures display a structure of binary identity oppositions that were linked across settings in relations of homology. In addition, assumptions and beliefs the activists held about the nature of schooling and politics are reconstructed and found to display a structure of logical implication between terms. This reconstruction focuses on the way in which the pragmatic infrastructures that make communication possible implicate tacit “ideas” that may be articulated into a discourse resting on implicit assumptions that mediate pragmatic binary oppositions as their third terms. In this way, a “use” or “act” theory of meaning is related to existential identity claims accompanying social acts.

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