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Dimensions of Language
Metaphors and Their Meanings
Tools for Dimensions
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This dimention deals with the "feel and texture" of words like "swosh".
What is thematic dimention?
100
At times figures of speech can also produce this while performing a function and still carry a meaning.
What is a theme?
100
These three types of sentence are use in the functional dimension.
What are simple, compound, and complex sentences?
200
The words of the functional dimention allow us to identify these.
What are causes and effects?
200
At least these two parts are in a metaphor.
What is the subject and the means of expressing it?
200
This word maintains that the basic model used by humans to explain various situations is the narrative story or "drama".
What is dramatism
300
This dimension expresses the jobs that words can do, such as naming.
What is functional dimension?
300
This language can be quite effective in persuading the listener with unrealistic images.
What is metaphoric language?
300
This style, used in thematic dimension, sets the mood for persuadees by repeatedly using certain sounds, figures of speech, and images.
What is metaphorical style?
400
Understanding dimentions of language can assist in analyzing these two things.
What are verbal and nonverbal persuasive symbols
400
Other than verbaly spoken, metaphors may also be used this way.
What is visual?
400
The use of this appeals to 1 or more of the the 5 "senses".
What is sensory language?
500
The words "Sudden, Fast, and Slow" are examples of this dimension.
What is Semantic dimension?
500
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
What is a metaphor
500
This style is used to convince neutral or opposition listeners.
What is pragmatic style?