Patterns in Language

Patterns in Language

I. FRAMES OF LANGUAGE
A. Verbal
B.  Tonal
C. Physical/kinetic 

II. PATTERNS OF VOICE

A. Tone of voice

1. Intonational frame

2. "Mystique" of tone

a. Attitude 

b. Mood 

c. Mode 

d. Style 

B. Direct Address

1. Speaker/Listener writer/reader symmetry 

2. Point of view 

a. Character 

b. Role playing

III. PATTERNS OF REPETITION

Deliberately repeated patterns, fundamentally of sound 

1. Prosody 

2. Literary usage

a. Mode

i. Mime:  words enacted 

 ii. Prose: words spoken 

iii. Song::  words sung 

iv. Epos:  :words chanted 

b. Tone

i. Irony 

ii. Satire 

iii. Wit 

iv. Paradox 

3. Repetitive sound patterns

a. Rhyme

b. Alliteration 

c.  Consonance

1. Lexical devices

a. Diction or word choice 

b. Usage 

Grammatical and sociological

c. Idiom 

Non-literal applications of words and word groups

1. Syntactical devices

a. Basic statement patterns

b. Varieties of sentence structure

Combinations

subordinations

modifications

complementations

predications

c. Clause and combinations

d. Coordination

e. Parallelism

f. Juxtaposition

g. Emphasis

h. Subordination

i. Modification

j. Reference

k. Incomplete or noncomplete construction

1. Rhetorical devices

a. Definition

b. Classification

c. Exemplification

d. Comparison

Analysis

e. Causal analysis (cause and effect)

f. Process analysis

g. Detailing

h. Illustration

i. Organization

i. Chronological 

ii. Spatial 

iii. Logical 

(a). Inductive 

(b). Deduction 

IV. PATTERNS OF MEANING


A. Multiple meaning

1. Horizontal ambiguity

               a. Verbal pluralism 

          2. Vertical ambiguity

               a. Abstractive/concretive

B. Notational meaning

          1. Denote 

          2. Connotation 

          3. Majority, group meanings

          4. Minority, individual meanings

C. Etymology 

     1. Meaning of verbal signs

a. Historically

b. Contextually

c. Culturally

D. Neologisms

1. Focus on productivity of language through

               a. "Word coinage" or naming

V. PATTERNS OF FIGURES

A. Trope 

     2. Analogy 

B. Metaphor 

     1. Relational analysis

a. Simple/Directional relations A:B

b. Reciprocal/mutual relations A:B B:A

c. Wheel/Simultaneous relations AB

     2. Rhetorical analysis

          a. Explosive

                "in,small,qualitative" to "out,large, quantitative"

          b. Implosive

                "Out, large, quantitative" to "in, small, qualitative"

          c. Pulse

                Combination of explosive and implosive

C. Images

     1. Presentation to the senses

a. Visual 

b. Auditory 

c. Kinetic (see above)

d. Gustatory 

e. Olfactory