words

same words. different meanings. 6

This entry was posted in dialogue and tagged communication context meaning semantic words on (updated 3153 days ago)

Words mean things. And different people use the same words to mean different things. This makes for either mass confusion or fierce conversations. The context of our own self-talk (internal conversations) colors everything we hear and read. These are some recent phrases that may be creating cognitive dissonance: “epic” – […]

finding better words that connect 4

This entry was posted in dialogue journal and tagged communication vocabulary words on (updated 3674 days ago)

Words mean things; they have a lexical definition. But that’s not all. There’s more! Words carry emotions based on one’s experience and context, both nature and nurture (personality bent and family upbringing, respectively.) And effective communication is all about finding the words that transmit the sender’s (speaker or author) ideas […]