Meta Model

Question 1

What is the meta-model?

Answer 1

A (i.) model with a number of linguistic distinctions that (ii.) identifies language patterns that obscure meaning in a communication (through distortion, deletion and generalisation).

Question 2

How is the meta-model used?

Answer 2

1. The model includes specific challenges or questions by which the “ill-formed” language is reconnected to sensory experience and the deep structure.
2. These meta-model challenges bring a person out of trance.

Question 3

What are the three universal processes of modeling on which the Meta-Model is based?

Answer 3

1. Deletion;
2. Generalization,
3. Distortion.

Question 4

What do we mean by the terms deep structure and surface structure?

Answer 4

1. Terms from Transformational Grammar (original source of meta-model), referring to levels of meaning / representation of terms.
2. The surface statements of everyday language comes from and reflects the deeper structure (the complete internal representation/experience of what we seek to communicate) and transforms it.

Question 5

How do the Meta-Model and the Milton Model relate to each other?

Answer 5

The Milton model mirrors in reverse the Meta-model

1. The Meta-model steps down to specifics to recover distorted, generalised and deleted materials - this takes us out of trance.
2. The Milton model, using same distinctions, chunks up to make new generalisations, deletions and distortions - it steps up to general / vague information

Question 6

What does the phrase transderivational search (TDS) mean in NLP, and how and when do we use it?

Answer 6

Going back to an experience in memory and language and recovering more of it i.e.

To make meaning of the symbols we hear (words, language etc.), we access our memory banks, our library of references, our internal references - Travel Down inSide

Question 7

What is an embedded command and how do you do it?

Answer 7

It is a command embedded into the flow of language in such a way that unless one is listening for it, it is non-obvious and so works as a hypnotic suggestion.

Giving instructions to unconscious mind by analogous marking of words in sentences.

Question 8

What are the four kinds of ambiguity commonly referred to in NLP?

Answer 8

1. Phonological ambiguity: Listed as word pairs or as multiple meanings for a single word e.g. “We’re open until 6:00. Come by (buy) today.”
2. **Syntactic ambiguity: **Based on structure or syntax of sentence. Ambiguity from uncertainty about intended meaning of sentence e.g. Teaching teachers can be difficult. [difficult to teach teachers, or teachers who are teaching are difficult?]
3. **Scope ambiguity: **Uncertainty about how much of the sentence a modifier (word or phrase) applies to e.g. “The director wanted bearded men and women for the play”. [“bearded” men only or men and women?]
4. Punctuation ambiguity: Missing or inappropriate punctuation e.g. “That’s right now you can relax more completely.” [Missing punctuation between right and now.]

Question 9

What is a conversational postulate and how it is used as a language device in communicating?

Answer 9

A statement that postulates a command or suggestion using words that are heard as a polite request.

A yes/no question to which the listener will respond by actually doing what is implied

Examples: “Can you close the door?” A yes/no question to which most people will respond by getting up and closing the door. “Can you pass the salt?”

Question 10

How would you use Quotes as a linguistic device?

Answer 10

Quotes is a device wherein you quote a story, statement, question, illustration from someone and within the quote make a statement, point, question, or command.

Quotes takes attention away from speaker and displace the conscious mind so that the information can go to the unconscious mind.