Language Patterns
Does ‘assume’ really make an ass out of you and me?
Presuppositions abound in our language, and for the most part they are learned behaviour. This is a belief of mine, and I believe this because we learn our language from our parents first and foremost, and let’s face it – we like to mimic. I, therefore assume that since my first model of the world was recognisable to me all my presuppositional language came form my parents telling me how it should be.
When we do come into contact with others outside of our ilk, it is likely to be in the nursery or even on some occasions later than that at primary school; when the parent hands the reins over to another adult who the child can only assume has the same values and beliefs as the parents because they trust this teacher person to look after the child.
The first influence is the adult teacher, we assume. More likely the first influence and the first experience of peer pressure will occur on the playground – we kind of forget that. Children recognise children and respond accordingly.
NLP tells us that it is important to listen to speech, the inherent qualities and concepts that are the assumptions in the others world.
Here is where the internal representations are questioned and the structure their model of the world is assailed on a daily basis and you know, don’t you, that learning is easy…
Leslie Currie 29/01/2007
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