Handbook of NLP by Alder Harry;

Author:Alder, Harry;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Communicating for quick results

Let's assume I require information concerning a brick heading towards me at speed. I can probably do without data as to its nature, shape, size and weight, its early trajectory, its thrower, and the possible pain and structural damage that such a missile could cause to a human skull. But I need to know it has started its journey, or part way through communication of the ‘deeper language structure’, the missile may summarily floor me with a cracked skull. The injunction ‘Watch out!’ – though grossly generalized and begging so many rational questions – for my part would have served as a more effective communication. The communicator's meaning or intended outcome (to save my head, I guess) revealed itself in an appropriate response. In other words, ‘Watch out!’ did the trick. An overly precise neural transfer would probably have not done so, had I lived to consider it. The presupposition ‘the meaning of a communication is the response it elicits’ again makes sense. Moreover, vague language certainly has its place.

Hence the practical need for a compromise in most communications. Common sense will suggest such a compromise when we apply the communication presuppositions. For example, we would ask ourselves (quickly, in this case) how we might best stop that fellow suffering a blow from that brick. Answer: shout a contextually appropriate warning. ‘Appropriate’ might mean fast, loud, unambiguous, credible, congruent and so on – whatever will do the communication trick of giving rise to a successful outcome.

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