Syntactic Ambiguity
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns They were speaking ambiguities So far we’ve covered three of the four different categories of ambiguities. We have looked at phonological, scope and punctuation ambiguities. Today we examine the last category. Syntactic Ambiguities are sentences in which it is unclear who refers to what. What is the modifier modifying? There are actually two types of syntactic …
Scope Ambiguity
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns A scope ambiguity is a sentence in which it is unclear and, therefore, open to interpretation, how much a verb or adverb or adjective refers to; what is the scope of its reference. It is very often a sentence with an “and” connecting two objects, where the first object has an adjective and the second one …
Phonological Ambiguities
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns Ambiguities Ambiguities are words or phrases that can have more than one meaning. The mild confusion that results is conducive to developing trance. There are four basic categories of ambiguities at which we’ll be looking starting with… Phonological Ambiguities Phonological ambiguities are words that sound the same but have different meanings and can be used in …
Covering All Possibilities of Responses
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns In keeping with the principle of “Utilization,” the pattern “Covering All Possibilities of Responses” deliberately sets out to create a scenario wherein you can utilize various client responses in a positive way. You do so by making sure you have all bases covered. Imagine we were going to toss a coin. You could say, “As you …
Utilization
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns “Utilization” is utilizing whatever response your client offers you in a positive way. (The client says, “I don’t know if I was in trance.”) “That’s right, you don’t know if you were in trance because you’re trying to evaluate it with your conscious mind and trance is not a conscious process.” (The client warns, “I’m not …
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