Close Talking

Schoeller examines the linguistic challenge of formulating experienced backgrounds and contexts. When a situational complexity is brought up for discussion, it often only becomes clear "what it is all about" in a way that allows one to think and feel further and to experience and feel other things that are related to what one has experienced. This sometimes results in extremely unusual statements. This study examines the precision of a tentative formulation that allows for an unpredictable development of meaning. Such a meaning can hardly be grasped in terms of the philosophy of language with the models of representation or construction; it also breaks through the framework of Ordinary Language Philosophy. Taking into account the approaches of embodiment, Schoeller designs in the intersection of pragmatism, phenomenology, hermeneuti.