Patterns & Metaphors
Verbal interaction preferences
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Participants may have distinct preferences amongst the following primarily verbal modes:
[1. Fact-oriented:] The stress is on stating information (often quantitative) considered to be factual, querying such facts, comparing them, and extrapolating from them to domains about which fewer facts are known by those present.
[2. Affect-oriented:] The stress is on the expression of emotional opinion concerning different experiences and facts. Participants may be emotionally aroused by the repeated reinforcement of certain opinions.
[3. Concept-oriented:] In this mode, categories of fact and experience are compared, criticized, re-ordered, possibly with only incidental reference to the referents.
[4. Doctrine-oriented:] A set of beliefs shared by participants may give rise to statements reaffirming and justifying them, as well as extending their application to new domains. This includes interaction about legal and procedural matters.
[5. Value-oriented:] Statements stressing the qualitative importance of particular approaches to any of the above.
[6. Action prescriptive:] Here the stress is on what should be done, usually in the light of any of the above.
