Type of expression | Description | Excerpt |
Resisting | Resisting the interventionist, management or change, questioning, opposition, or rejection. | - |
Criticizing | Criticizing the current activity or organization. | “I think that the current practices do not work. The main question is what goes wrong in the public way of operating?” |
Explicating | Explicating new possibilities or potentials in the activity, relating to past positive experiences, characterizing the problematic object as a source of new possibilities. | “The atmosphere in the development group is positive. The discussions with cross-sectorial civil servants concern practical concrete issues. Everyone is engaged with the decisions.” |
Envisioning | Envisioning new patterns or models from partial preliminary suggestions for the presentation and examination of comprehensive models for the future. | “It is utmost important that all the community associations will be invited to the next planning sessions.” |
Committing to actions | Committing the concrete actions aimed at changing the activity with commissive speech acts. | “I have promised to take the main responsibility. I will write the proposal on the form and send it.” |
Taking actions | Taking consequential actions to change the activity. | “I have advertised the event in webpages.” |