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The main objection to the first stage of the ALTER model, which involves actors and their representations, is the danger of solipsism. Since the construction of representations has replaced the exchange of dialogue, the speaker, or the interpreter, is immured in solitary confinement. The answer to the objection relies on the possibility of adjustment of representations, and, where such direct accommodation is impossible, to the intersection of cultural conjunctures (that is to the intersection of conjunctions of L and E at times tx and ty). The first answer provides the monad with doors and windows, the second relies on a form of pre-established harmony in linguistic and cultural matters.
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Lecercle, JJ. (1999). Language, or: Interpellation. In: Interpretation as Pragmatics. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373648_6
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