Demonstrations as Actions and Products

Tadeusz Ciecierski (University of Warsaw)

The ALEF research group (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) announces an online talk by Tadeusz Ciecierski (University of Warsaw) entitled "Demonstrations as Actions and Products". The talk is part of the group's regular seminar and takes place on Friday, DECEMBER 17, 18.00 EET (Eastern European Time). Please write to [email protected] or check our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ALEF-100692348488914) if you want to participate. For more information about ALEF, as well as the schedule for the seminar in the 2021-2022 winter semester, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/alefgroupcluj.

Here is the abstract of the talk:

As it is broadly accepted, typical uses of demonstratives are accompanied by demonstrations. The concept of demonstration, however, manifests the action–product ambiguity analogous to that visible in the opposition between jumping and the resulting jump, talking and the resulting talk or crying and the resulting cry. It is also a heterogeneous concept that enables demonstrations to vary significantly with respect to their forms. The present paper discusses action–product ambiguity as applied to demonstrations as well as the heterogeneity of the latter. An account that embraces both concepts is sketched in the paper.