pile of books
skip main nav
 Ling 131: Language & Style
 

 Topic 13 - Shared knowledge and absurdist drama (Session A) > Shared knowledge > Task C skip topic navigation

Topic Contents
Shared knowledge
More about shared schematic knowledge
Our schematic knowledge of a typical tutorial
Educating Rita
Analysing Rita
 
Useful Links
Readings
 

Shared knowledge

Task C – In a hospital operating theatre

stephoscopeMost people have not been inside a hospital operating theatre while conscious. Even if you have been in one, you will probably have been anaesthetised at the time. Yet we can still say with reasonable certainty what we would expect to see if we did go into an operating theatre – an operating table, trolleys with scalpels and other surgical tools, doctors and nurses wearing theatre gowns, face masks, and so on.

How do we know about such things if we have not experienced them?

 

Our answer

 


goto top of page
Next: Task D - How is our shared knowledge organised? next

Home ¦ Outline ¦ Contents ¦ Glossary