High School level geometry and algebra are used for explicating the basic principles of discourse mechanisms. Thus, ethnosemantics resembles in its methods of investigation such other disciplines as theoretical physics, linguistics, mathematics, architecture, and engineering. The application of ethnosemantic findings to the understanding of actual particular unique settings is called transactional engineering . Topicalization dynamics describes the way in which topic is produced in the discourse of participants. Ethnosemantics explicates the procedure whereby situational coordinates set up contention points whose dialectic resolution by means of standardized mechanisms evokes situated topicalization.
Evocative discourse covers all forms of linguistic and conceptual topicalizations.
Constitutive Exchanges V. Transactional Engineering Ethnosemantic outlines are exact descriptions of existing standardized inter-connections between concepts and, thus, they characterize cultural group. All forms of practical understandings are grounded in and traceable to their underlying ethnosemantic outlines. Topic Focus identifies boundary markers by contracting ethnosemantic outlines to a particular set. This contraction process is described as topicalization or the evocation of situated discourse, and is called discourse register . Discourse register is comprised of a system of selectional mechanisms that are sensitive to the parameters of social settings, called contextualizations .