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The Psychology of Communication Read and do --"actions speak louder than words" The literacy of action |
How to get into Second Life without really trying |
| Your reality processing uses different parts of you brain: Visual Spatial Motor You understand what you read (or hear) when your language system activates those reality processing systems. |
A word is not the thing it denotes. General Semantics Language and Thought in Action S.I. Hayakawa |
| Language was the first public virtual reality.
But brains have been doing it a lot longer. Your brain creates models in your head. >>what you see, >>What you imagine >>what you imagine to happen |
The Game
in Your Head The writer's job is to create images and models in the viewer's head |
| Reading and visual imagination use some of the same parts of the
brain. Reader: Stop reading and imagine. Writer: Use language that points to things that the reader can see, feel, or touch. |
Concretizer Talk Slogans Imagery |
JabberwockyLewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" |
The
Highwayman By Alfred Noyes THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding— Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. |
| Aphorisms and quest guides. |
Cuepons Quest Questions Vs. the Head Nazis If you don't know where you are going, any road will do. Aphorisms and/or Epigrams |
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The Thinkerer
12/12/2008 Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans |
The Psychology of Literacy | ||
| Famous fables | |||