What does the word point to?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Application
Language Audit
Language Audit examines whether words, categories, definitions, slogans, and labels refer to actuality or begin to govern it.
Language can refer to actuality, but it does not enclose actuality.
Questions / checks
What does the category do?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
What does the definition hide?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Who benefits from the wording?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Can the term be corrected?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
What should be said instead?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Everyday use
Use this page when a situation feels captured by a label, model, representation, word, system, authority, or practice.
The task is to return the frame to service of what is, not to destroy every frame.