FUTURES DESIGN DISCOURSE MOVES
LONG LIST
This list is provided to help understand what language acts or discourse moves are and do. They operate above the level of a sentence that is being enacted or performed in a design process, project, product, outcome, uptake, participation or policy.
A
Absorbing
Accepting
Adding
Affecting
Aggregating
Agreeing
Altering
Altering
Analysing
Annotating
Announcing
Anticipating
Appearing
Approaching
Approving
Arranging
Articulating
Asking
Aspirating
Aspiring
Assessing
Associating
Attaching
Attending
Attracting
B
Backgrounding
Baking
Balancing
Bargaining
Becoming
Being
Binding
Blinding
Blurring
Bridging
Broadening
C
Cajoling
Calculating
Calling
Cancelling
Canoodling
Caressing
Caring
Categorising
Ceasing
Challenging
Changing
Choreographing
Claiming
Clarifying
Cleaning
Closing
Codifying
Collecting
Combining
Comparing
Compartmentalising
Compelling
Complementing
Compressing
Conceding
Concluding
Conforming
Confusing
Connecting
Consoling
Contextualising
Continuing
Contracting
Contradicting
Contrasting
Controlling
Cooperating
Coordinating
Countering
Covering
Creating
Criticising
Critiquing
Crossing
Cutting
Cutting
D
Debating
Declaring
Deconstructing
Decreasing
Deducing
Deepening
Defining
Deflecting
Deforming
Delaying
Deleting
Demarcating
Demeaning
Demonstrating
Denuding
Denying
Describing
Desiring
Destroying
Detailing
Differentiating
Diffusing
Digging
Disagreeing
Disappearing
Disheartening
Disintegrating
Disjoining
Dismembering
Dismissing
Disrupting
Distiancing
Distilling
Distinguishing
Distracting
Distributing
Dividing
Doodling
Drawing
Drowning
E
Effecting
Elaborating
Emphasising
Enamouring
Enchanting
Encompassing
Engineering
Envisioning
Escaping
Estimating
Exchanging
Exercising
Exercising
Exhibiting
Expanding
Experiencing
Explaining
F
Fabricating
Facilitating
Falling
Feeling
Filtering
Firing
Fixing
Flattening
Flipping
Floating
Focusing
Folding
Following up
Forecasting
Foregrounding
Formulating
Framing
Freezing
Freezing
G
Generating
Gifting
Giving
Glancing
Gliding
Gluing
Grasping
Grounding
Guiding
H
Hammering
Handling
Heating
Highlighting
Holding
Hoping
I
Identifying
Ignoring
Imagining
Including
Increasing
Inducing
Initiating
Injecting
Inserting
Instructing
Integrating
Intending
Interacting
Interpreting
Interrupting
Inviting
J
Judging
Jumping
Justifying
Juxtaposing
K
Keeping
L
Limiting
Linking
M
Maintaining
Managing
Manifesting
Manipulating
Manufacturing
Mapping
Marking
Measuring
Modifying
Morphing
Motivating
Moulding
Multiplying
Mutating
Muting
Mythologising
N
Nailing
Naming
Narrating
Narrowing
Negotiating
Networking
Normalising
Notifying
Nurturing
O
Obscuring
Observing
Offering
Opposing
Ordering
Orienting
Overviewing
P
Packaging
Pairing
Participating
Partitioning
Partnering
Pausing
Penetrating
Percolating
Perforating
Persuading
Picturing
Pitching
Pleading
Plotting
Pointing
Politicising
Positing
Positioning
Possessing
Praying
Prescribing
Presenting
Pressing
Pressuring
Pressurising
Priming
Probing
Problematising
Proffering
Projecting
Promoting
Prompting
Proposing
Providing
Provoking
Publicising
Pursuing
Q
Qualifying
Quantifying
Questioning
Quientening
R
Reacting
Reasoning
Rebooting
Rebutting
Recapping
Recommending
Redirecting
Reducing
Reflecting
Reformulating
Regenerating
Reiterating
Rejecting
Relating
Removing
Rendering
Repairing
Repeating
Replacing
Requesting
Requiring
Resisting
Resolving
Responding
Restating
Returning
Reversing
Reviling
Revisioning
Rotating
Routinising
S
Sabotaging
Saturating
Sauntering
Scaffolding
Screening
Sculpting
Sectioning
Seeping
Segregating
Seizing
Selecting
Sensing
Separating
Sequencing
Sequestering
Serenading
Shaping
Shifting
Signifying
Silencing
Simplifying
Sketching
Sleeping
Sliding
Sliding
Slithering
Socialsing
Sorting
Spacing
Specialising
Specifying
Speculating
Spreading
Squinting
Staging
Stakeholding
Standing
Statifying
Stating
Sticking
Stitching
Strengthening
Stretching
Structuring
Substituting
Subtracting
Suggesting
Summarising
Supporting
Surpassing
Suspending
Sustaining
Swerving
Swimming
Switching
Symbolising
Synthesising
Systematising
T
Tagging
Targeting
Tearing
Tempting
Terminating
Testing
Threading
Tooling
Transcribing
Transforming
Transitioning
Transposing
Trimming
Turning
Twisting
Typologizing
U
Unwilling
Upending
V
Validating
Valuing
Varying
Verbalising
Visualising
Vocalising
Voicing
Volumising
W
Waiting
Wanting
Weakening
Willing
Wishing
Workshopping
Wrapping
Z
Zooming
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