Lost Performative

Stating a value judgement without identifying the source of the judgement.

“It’s great to think about….”

“And it’s a good thing to…”

Ambiguity – Syntactic

Using a selection of words in a sentence that can have a number of different interpretations and...

Implying that one thing has caused something else to occur even though there may be no logical...

Embedding a suggestion in a series of enclosed quotations that mask who is saying what and to whom...

Creating an equivalence between two things that doesn’t naturally exist. Forcing equality...

Omitting the verb or the object of the verb to increase the ambiguity of the statement. ...

Using comparisons without specifying what is being compared. “It’s much...