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August 17, 2012
Clear Description of Ladder of Abstraction | | |
Hello again, subscriber friend!
I regret sending the blurry graphic in today's article,
"What DoWords Really Mean?"
So I'm sending this follow-up for puzzled readers.
(Est. Reading time: 1 minute.) loren@conversationmatters.com |
| Clear Description of Ladder of Abstraction | |
4 Levels of Semantic Abstraction (by S.I. Hayakawa)
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Level Four: Abstractions
Examples: life, beauty, love, time, success, power, happiness, faith, hope, charity, evil, good.
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Level Three: Noun classes: broad group names with little specification.
Examples: People, men, women, young people, everybody, nobody, industry, we, goals, things, television.
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Level Two: Noun categories: more definite groups.
Examples: teen-agers, middle-class, clothing industry, parents, college campus, newborn child, TV comedies, house plants.
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Level One: Specific, identifiable nouns.
Examples: Levi 501 jeans, my blue, three bedroom house on Hollis Street, In Living Color, Bud commercials, African violets, Tina's newborn sister, Mina. |
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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication and a national expert on conversation for business and social life.
Contact at Loren@conversationmatters.com
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