EMERGING THEORY OF LANGG- NS

Same, different and the rest

Objects and events are related to each other in nine basic ways. According to an emerging theory of language called relational frame theory , networks of these relations are the building blocks of symbolic thought and language

1. COORDINATION dog is the same as hound

2. DISTINCTION a white dog is not the same as a brown dog

3. OPPOSITION a black dog versus a white cat

4. COMPARISON this dog is bigger than that dog

5. SPATIAL that dog is on the left, the other dog is on the right

6. DEICTIC (similar to spatial but in terms of the perspective of the speaker) I am in front of that dog but behind the other

7. TEMPORAL I fed the dog before I fed the cat

8. HIERARCHICAL a dog is a sort of mammal, which is a type of animal

9. CAUSAL if the dog bites me, I will punish it