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The conduit metaphor: A case of frame
conflict in our language about language
MICHAEL J. REDDY
I should like to respond to Professor Schdn's chapter by replaying his
theme several octaves lowes. In miy opinion, he has sruckenacly te Fight
set of notes, “Problem seling” should indeed be considered the erucil
process, as opposed to “problem suving.” And the “stories that people el
About woublesome situations” do set up or "edate” the problem. And
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cisely because it (s quite often “immune to resolution by appeal to the
facts." itis hard to think ef a better overture to genuine advance in the
social and behavioral scences than this. At the sane time, t seems to me
that Sn fas managed to sound these excellent notes oniy in their over
tones, 0 thet the fame equ bay tobe heard ven
though, to my ears atleast, Schon's kind of thinking i real and lon
awaited music. * ° *
Quite simply, what 1 believe is missing i the application of Schon’
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