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Corrie van Wijk
25-04-2008, 01:32 PM
Admin: This text quoted below is taken from the article "Proximity and Change" by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. The full article with diagrams can be found here (http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/artic....html/print/56)


"Another way to classify kinds of adjacency is in relation to what we call the fundamental components of perception:

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Time
Just before or just after
Events that are simultaneous and 'next to'

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Everyday language
Linguistically there are lots of little words whose job is to put two or more ideas together; to create adjacency in our mind. As well as the words listed in the above table, consider:

while, since, as, then
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'And' is a simple way to put two ideas side by side - whether they have a relationship or not. For example, starting a question with 'and' instantly creates an adjacency between what the person has just said and what you are about to say.

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The next-to-ness of ideas, symbols, people, places, beliefs and values is a natural way to encode meaning. It matters when things are adjacent to each other."


Oxford Dictionary:


Coincide: Occupy same portion of space; occur at and occupy same time; agree together or with; concur in opinion, etc.

Coincidence: (Instance of) being coincident; notable concurrence of events in circumstances without apparent causal connexion.



This section is labelled as "David's exploration of 'the best next thing'."

That is different from J&P's definition: I think he meant 'approximately' as in a 'proxy space', meaning if you can't get exactly what you want, the next (closest in similarity) thing may do as well.