WHAT is DC

- aboutness

Aboutness is root of transparency and authenticity, and finally pays into competencies, especially when data is in focus of intellectual and intelligent exchange.

Aboutness is often translated with the term intentionality. Aboutness is the mental ability to relate to something, a talent to adjust thoughts and action to something. Such an ability creates facts (german: Sachverhalte), means data about something, often called meta data.

The term was originally introduced by Franz Brentano in 1874, exhaustively used by his follower and phenomenologist Edmund Husserl and reanimated and adapted by the linguist John Searle in 1983.

This is WHY aboutness influences competencies significantly and is key for trust and crediblity in information and data.

Meta information / meta data is not a bagatelle, rather an active intentional process of consciousness.

WHAT is DC

- speech acts

C.S. Peirce, L. Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, J. Searle, and J. Habermas are most prominent ambassadors of speech acts.

Peirce segregates sentences into propositions (Satz) and assertions (Aussage i.S.v. Behauptung). While propositions represent pictures with a label or a pointer (images), assertions give responsibility to its speaker. Peirce sublates speech to acts.

Wittgenstein stated not to ask for the meaning but for the use of language. Language games sublate speech as a form of live - they go beyond an ostensive intention. Speech acts evoke explications and generate rules.

Austin claimed how to do things with words to give direction to words with locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary intent.

Searle segregates the locutionary act into utterance and a propositional act.

Habermas claims for a discourse ethic that

1. eliminates the diabolic perlocutionary (strategic) acts of speech acts down to puristic illocutionary acts (indicative, pointing).
2. is built on an exchange of arguments, where each argument is validated by the hearer through a grid of 4 criteria:
3. Understanding (Verständlichkeit)
4. Propositional truth / assertability conditions (Wahrheit)
5. Normative rightness / normative justification (Normative Richtigkeit)
6. Truthfullness / Sincerity / credibility with which it is expressed (Wahrhaftigkeit, Glaubwürdigkeit, Authentizität)
7. breaks down utterances by 2 meanings:
8. Propositional content / statement
9. Illucutionary force /act

Know-how: "Learn to create awareness for the power of words to catch attention for your story."

Use of language

Illocution, semiotics and semantics

Discourse: Rational and to a consense intended, rather unforced, debate. Targeted to a common sense.

WHAT is DC

- the didact•ic

Good competencies require good didactical methods. From teacher direction good didactical methods are adjusted to and embedded into learner's competence and competencies. From student perspective good didactical methods are those which generate action through the process of reproduction / replication, which generates sound questions.

The practice Learning by Teaching (LbT) has proved best results transferring knowledge. Therefore students learn material and prepare lessons to act as a teacher. The real teacher's activity is reduced to that of a moderator. Such method enables students in parallel to reproduce student's clefts between learning intent and deliverables.

Know-how: "Learn through LbT  method how to emphatize with your colleagues."

Didactic needs pragmatic interaction in social areas. Speech acts are essential tools for developed competencies

Learning by Teaching LbT is prerequisitional. It needs capabilities of speech acts and dialectical skills.

WHAT is DC

- the dialect•ic

The notion of dialectics goes back to Plato, student of Socrates. Since the term dialectics has been used and adjusted to different techniques (maieutics, deduction, sublation, etc), I will follow the understanding of Hegel, who regards dialectics as a spiritual alternating minding process / deliberative process (Vermeinungsprozess) that generates through repetitive practice incremental sublation (Aufheben). The dialectical technique of sublation is unconditional and complements the intentions of speech acts and dicactics best.

Beyond, dialectics in general, and sublation in particular, create single consciousness, that is evolutionally created through conversational interaction in form of speech acts.

Such speech acts can be trained in diverse settings:



• Political debates
• Spontaneous interviews
• Appraisal interviews
• Scholastic disputations
• Grand jury disputations
• Spontaneous reply to ethical questions
• Spontaneous reply to profession
  

Dialectic is essential for interlocutions (Unterredung). However dialectic can be framed by tactical tools, that again inherit in acts. Tactics are revealed in the next section.

Know-how: "Learn about diverse dialectic techniques and identify the best one for your data competence situation"

Dialectic techniques are essential to improve an atmosphere of mutual confidence

WHAT is DC

- the tact•ic

Tactics guide and navigate the dialectic of a speech. Tactics are tools that reside in acts of a speech. They can channel communication processes and manifest competencies. Tactics supports dialectics. Tactics are pointing at something (ostensive) and support speech acts. Tactic is the strategic bridge of illocutionary forces and perlocutionary effects.

Such essential tactics can be learned and applied in diverse community settings:

1. Data Innovation Circle
2. Data Champions Workshop
3. Data Satire Club
4. Storytelling Challenge
5. Data Philosophy Circles
6. Data Blog Social Media Challenge
7. Podcasts Studio
8. Webcasts Studio
9. Roadshow Challenge
   

Expecially overstatement methods of storytelling in satire-style stimulate representation and understanding of data subjects. Such competencies are an empathic offer of ostensiveness to others.

Know-how: "Create a script with competencies that match best with your business scenario"

Tactics help when techniques are sensually perceived as one's own.