Construe Vs Shading

Construal is how people view the content of a specific instance, situation, entity, or relationship. Two different people can witness the same exact scenario, but describe it different ways. How people construe content is not reality and each person will always construe a situation differently. For example, the famous black/blue or white/gold dress that was popular a couple years back. Everybody who viewed that dress construed it differently. Two people might have saw it as black/blue, but the shading was different. It is impossible for two people’s brains to construe a situation in the exact same way, because everybody perceives situations differently. There are four ways to construe or view the expressed content. The four are, specificity,
A speaker can be very specific or very schematic. Highly specific is considered to be fined grained and high resolution, becoming very detailed while describing that situation. Schematic (less specific) is described as coarse grained and low resolution. When something is schematic, the description is more vague with little to no details. When discussing about things being specific or schematic, everything is compared and on a gradient scale. “Dog” is more specific than “animal” but is more schematic than “Rat Terrier.” Another concept related to specificity is, instantiated, meaning an instance of a schema. Also, elaboration is when those instances are being expanded on. “Rat Terrier” is an instance of the schema “dog,” while “dog” is being elaborated by “Rat Terrier.” We can see process by looking at elaborate hierarchies. It is easy to see that each entity elaborates on the previous one and is more specific and the entity before is more schematic. For
One way of doing this is by profiling, this is what is being focused on from an expression within the immediate scope. For example, if a dog has an injury on its paw and that is what is being discussed, then that dog’s paw becomes the profile, because it is what is important at that moment. But the profile must have a conceptual base, which in this case would be the whole dog. You cannot have just a dog’s paw without it conceptually being linked to a dog (Figure 5). Also, the dog would be the maximal scope for the immediate scope of the dog’s foot. Also, a conceptual base can be the same for two different expressions, but the meaning is different. An example of this would be the relationship of mother and daughter. The mother and daughter relationship is the same base for both mother and daughter, but depending on what the speaker decides to profile will change the meaning (Figure 6). When describing the mother, she is profiled and at the forefront. However, when discussing about the daughter, she becomes the profiled entity. The base remains the same, a mother-daughter relationship, but what is being profiled is