Reverse Meta Model: Factive Verbs and Adjectives
Factive Verbs and Adjectives are really useful. In fact, I use them all the time. You will too, if you don’t already, because when you use factive verbs and adjectives (like “aware, know, realize, regret, believe, pleased”) tied together with what you want to get across, the only question the listener might have is about the factive verb or adjective. Like in …
Reverse Meta Model: Pseudo Cleft Sentences
Pseudo Cleft Sentences are similar in function to cleft sentences, but they are formed with the pronoun “what.” They also have a clause that substitutes a noun phrase and acts as the subject of the whole sentence. What I like about them is how they emphasize selected parts. What John took Mary to was a concert. She said that what was great …
Reverse Meta Model: The Spurious Not
As you know from reading previous posts, presuppositions are sentences – or in recent examples, questions – that require the listener to accept certain facts or ways of thinking in order to make sense of the communication. Like if I asked you “what color is the car?” it would require you to accept that there is a car in the …
Reverse Meta Model: 3 types of Questions
NOTE: In Ericksonian Hypnotic Language patterns, sometimes we are purposely vague in order to be more hypnotically communicative. When we do that we are “reversing the meta model.” Today we present you with THREE Presupposition categories, each regarding Questions. In each category you presuppose through the asking of a question Questions Who learned the most? When did you stop beating …
Reverse Meta Model: Selection Restrictions
Reminder: The meta model is a way of questioning a speaker about their communications to us to retrieve more specific information. People will always be distorting information, deleting information or generalizing about it. The Meta Model helps us to clear that up. In Ericksonian Hypnotic Language patterns, sometimes we do that distorting, deleting or generalizing on purpose in order to …
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