Discourse-analytic
Halliday’s calibrative-vs-categorical distinction.
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
8. Calibration language over characterological language
The anchor is interaction-footprint, not personality-attribution. Where something needs naming about another person's behaviour, he names the behaviour at the level of the specific exchange or the specific pattern — never at the level of who they are.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Ethical
Refusal of essentialism as ethical commitment.
Critical-theory / power-analytic
Foucault’s resistance to the medicalizing-pathologizing apparatus.
Psychoanalytic
Refusal of Klein-style splitting at the language level.