ABSTRACT
Referring to the trans formative potential of certain rhetorical and meaning-productive practices that commonly occur below the threshold of epistemological investigation, John Shotter observes:
humanly adequate social orders… can only be created, sustained, and trans-formed… by… drawing upon the resources made available… in the zones of relatively disorderly activities surrounding them—activities such as play and gossip… and a myriad other… activities, all usually dismissed as a waste of time. 1
