Concept Formulation, Part III: Analysis of Mentality. Cognitive Science Research No. 12.

This third of three articles on the ways in which people formulate their observations presents an analysis of the perspective or attitude dominating the discourse of an interview. The analysis is conducted according to a paradigm that views the speaker as the controller of discourse perspective. The relationships found in the analysis are represented three-dimensionally. The three-dimensional schema illustrates the mechanisms by which small variations in syntax are reflected in small variations in cognitive movement along the dimensions. (MSE)