In the above example, the facilitator took up Ms. William's comment about cognitive demand and made it the object of the discussion by asking Ms. William to expand on what she said.
The trouble is that for the most part we are objects of the discussion - "things" to be to be discussed, rather than participants who are involved.
In the piece, five interpreters surround a visitor, turn their backs to her and declaim, "The objective of this work is to become the object of a discussion".
P-22 gave his species shape, turning its uncertain future in the basin into an object of public discussion.
The urban mountain lion known as P-22 has given his species shape, turning its uncertain future in Los Angeles into an object of public discussion.
One by one, each of the women rises to take a brief stroll, leaving the other two to huddle together in conspiratorial tones suggesting that the object of their discussion is suffering from some dire calamity.
Racing into the garden to stop the offender, he receives a swift kick in the shin and returns to the living room with an ominous-looking black container left behind by the interloper that becomes the object of much discussion at the party.
And a new book, A Philosophy of Walking by Prof Frederic Gros, is currently the object of much discussion.
All these aspects are still the object of intense discussion in the scientific community working on SiC [5 7, 9, 10].
(5) Thereby, the future can become "an object of manipulation, discussion, debate, and eventually, perhaps, even consensus" (Wachs, [2001]:372).
