Topic: Biology

These are the body sensations that pertain to the realm of the organism proper. "I am hungry," "My belly hurts," and "I want to sleep," are examples. The last one means "I are sleepy," because if the meaning was intended to be "I want to forgot," then the subject class would be entirely other. Whoever talks a lot about interoceptive sensations is sick, whether hypochondriac or not.

Relating to emotions (short-term affections) and feelings (long-term). Obvious examples are, "I love her," "I felt jealousy," "She sympathizes with me," "I am bored," and "She bores me," but not "This is boring," for the latter sentence belongs to the next class of subjects. Communication based on affectively charged sentences are of great human interest in general, especially to psychoanalysts, lovers, confidants, novelists, dramatists and the judicial system.

This type of value judgment relates to moral or ethical obligations. When you say, for example, "Make love, not war," and your implied intention is "It is immoral to kill; it has been divinely commanded to love your neighbor." "It is good to work the fields," is based on the biblical "Thou shall eat the bread with the sweat of thy brow."

Meaning goal-oriented. Here something has value because it is instrumentally useful. To exploit the above given examples: "War is bad because it is instrumental in destroying life and property, while love serves to create neighborliness and people." Again, "Working the fields yields produce."

In this subgroup of axiologic (value judgment) subjects, sentences convey the message that something has or lacks a value in itself. "War is not good because people suffer, while love gives pleasure and other joyous affections." And, "It is pleasant to work the fields; you fell creatively alive." This is boring," instead of "This bores me,' is an intrinsic value judgment. Dialogue based on this class of subjects leads to mutual identification or alienation.

Dialog of this class proceeds through sentences that convey ideas. These sentences are essentially analytic, dealing with science, whose concerns are demonstrable entities (facts) or philosophy, in its various approaches to undemonstrable yet clearly understandable thought matters. Theologic --non dogmatic-- themes are also included.

These are mostly related to being-existing and to doing. Like, "She is a mathematics teacher," "I am writing," "The patient is in coma," and "He is a dreamer," (also a value judgment). "She is a good mother" combines also an axiologic aspect.

"I wish to paint a beautiful picture," is a sentence in the declarative mood, present tense, which means: "I have an (affective) urge to realize an (ostensive) act resulting in an (axiologically aesthetic) object (exteroceptively) perceived by the sense of vision."

"You cannot imagine how good she was," probably means, "She was extremely good." Such sentence would be abstruse if the intention were, "Her goodness was of a divine, ethereal quality which can not be grasped by the mind." Analytically put, the sentence conveys the following message: "I am stating - in a declarative mood, past tense - that she had outstanding - axiologic - qualities." Now you are left with the option of believing that: a) she was (deontically) faithful and pious, b) she was (telically) very good at cooking, c) she provided (aestethically) much satisfaction and pleasure as a wife, and d) she had all those qualities.

"Should I give away this picture?" is a sentence in the interrogative mood, and in an 'indefinite' tense, which may just deal with the ostensive act of giving away, or may have affective or axiologic connotations, the latter being of an intrinsic (aesthetic) nature if you consider that the picture is not pretty, or telic, if you ponder over its monetary value.

"I might decide to buy this painting for a thousand dollars," is a conditional mood, 'indefinite' tense sentence containing an intellective component ('decide' after deliberating) and an ostensive act ('to buy'); 'for a thousand dollars' is axiologic -since the conditional clause ('I might') denotes uncertainty about the right price. Indeed, there is the implied question, "Perhaps I am being ripped off at that price (deontic), or, "I wonder if I'll be able to sell it for a profit," (telic), or yet, "I am not sure that it is really that pretty (aesthetic).

"Tell me your opinion about the President," is an imperative mood, indefinite tense sentence, dealing with intellective, axiologic and affective matters. Like, "Is the President good?" meaning perhaps, is he (deontically) a faithful husband? where a positive answer might (intellectively) be construed by you as indicating that the President has not the daring to be (telically) an effectively human leader, or perhaps you'll be (affectively) attracted by precisely such attribute in the President, and do not care much about his intellectual qualities.

Sentences in the imperative mood are uncanningly in the 'indefinite' tense. "Don't do this!" "Don't do that!" appear to refer to the present but also the future - and might even imply the past. These are the sentences that come to the mind when one thinks of the unconscious. The id behests: "Do!" and the superego commands: "Thou shall not!" The one shouts with the howling shriek of the instincts, the other speaks with the stern voice of parents and teachers. The preconscious ego cringes and asks itself with a whining tone: "What shall I do?" Reality solemnly declares: "This are the limits of your enactments!" And so, the preconscious ego finally says - falsely assertive: "I might as well."
All these processes, taking place in the hidden recesses of the mind, - in the viscid, proteiform protoplasm of neurons by the billions - finally give birth to a so-called 'decision' of the conscious ego.

Now hear this: The above written sentences might be construed by you as dealing with a abstruse subject, therefore unsuitable for linguistic communication. Or else, they might be understood as dealing with intellective matters - suitable for communication and therefore for dialogue. Should you find them unintelligible, probably the subject is not appropriate for your tastes or interests.

Knock, knock! she raps at the door: non-verbal information indicating that there is somebody asking for the door to be opened. The man responds, opening the door: non-verbal response. Dialogue is about to begin.
She smiles and cheerily says "Hi!" This is now a verbal expression (with the non-verbal, body-language smile) meaning, "I wish to obtain something from you." Dialogue starts in earnest when the man dourly answers, "Yes?" with all its significance.
She explains, "I am selling encyclopedias and I'm meaning to sell you one." He gruffly responds, "I don't wan'a buy no encyclopedias from nobody!"
Dialogue, that is, purposeful linguistic exchange of information, started and ended.