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‘the ‘metamessage’ of his patronizing tone was that everything baffling her was obvious to him’
‘The closer their guesses to the actual score, the clearer the metamessage of the text.’
‘What I think does provide ground for complaint is the metamessage the book can be read as embodying.’
‘Emotional responses are often triggered by metamessages.’
‘The Sense of Humor Questionnaire yields three scores: metamessage sensitivity, or ability to recognize humor; liking of humor; and emotional expressiveness, or the tendency to express one's emotions.’
‘That's what makes metamessages so difficult to pinpoint and talk about: They're implicit, not explicit.’
‘But some arguments can be constructive - if family members use them to articulate and understand the metamessages they are intending and hearing.’
‘You start off, as a child, having to be sent explicit messages - metamessages - about what your messages are going to be about.’
‘Acknowledging and responding to metamessages can sometimes be much more important than dealing with the literal ones.’
‘The exhibit is an isomorphic extension of Cage's metamessages to the medium of the museum.’
‘For now, though, it may be enough to understand that framing - and the metamessages that convey it - is an essential, if hidden part of storytelling and all communication.’
‘The disapproval Loraine heard was the metamessage - that is, the implications of her mother's words.’
‘Art in its many forms - poetry, paintings, songs, plays, novels, movies - has a metamessage.’
‘Daughters and mothers agree on what the troublesome conversations are; they disagree on who introduced the note of contention, because they have different views of the metamessages their words imply.’
‘I immediately changed how I talked to people, because the message that was true, the metamessage, was that they were valuable and of worth.’
‘The two continuums frequently overlap, which is what makes it hard to decipher all the metamessages at play in a conversation.’
‘The metamessages are formed from context - the way something is said, who is saying it, or the very fact that it is said at all.’
‘One example of reframing is to metacommunicate - to talk about ways of talking and to talk about any metamessages conveyed.’
‘Sense of Humor Scale, there were no significant effects for emotional expressiveness, liking of humor, or metamessage sensitivity.’
‘One of the key concepts she teaches are metamessages.’