Marching in DC
I spent the weekend in DC at the rally/march. Some pictures are on my flickr page, and I’ve made comments there, but something struck me during the march (other than the traditional “W is a deluded dangerous asshole; I have a great family; marches perforce bring out Che t-shirts, etc.”) concerning signs and speech acts. Is carrying a sign tantamount to making that speech act? If the sign contains an imperative, e.g. “BRING THE TROOPS HOME” then to whom is this imperative addressed? I’m not being snarky here about preaching to the choir — I actually think there could be some interesting analysis done on this type of “speech act” if it is indeed such.