Method guide · Work with a structured grid
Counterpart Lexicon Map
Test whether someone else can reconstruct the intended situation from a proposed term and minimal context.
- People
- 4–16
- Base procedure time
- 45 minutes
- Recording
- Shared record
Purpose: Explore through dialogue; Organise and narrow ideas.
English guide
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How this method works
A conversation method that works backwards to check whether the same word evokes the same situation for someone else. Participants write an organisational candidate term and the user's situation it describes on separate cards. Give another person only the candidate term and the minimum necessary context, then test whether they can restate the intended situation. Compare this with the original account and classify the result as the same meaning, narrower meaning, broader meaning, or unable to judge. For the latter 3, add situations where the term cannot be used. The result records whether each term is adopted and why. Do not use a majority vote to replace statutory professional terms or names that people concerned have chosen for themselves.
Phase schedule
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- Choose original accounts0–7 minutes from the start (7 minutes)
Action: Choose. Participation: Small groups gathered around the records.
Shared record
- Match candidate terms7–17 minutes from the start (10 minutes)
Action: Arrange. Participation: Small groups gathered around the records.
Shared record
- Read back to the situation17–27 minutes from the start (10 minutes)
Action: Read. Participation: Small groups gathered around the records.
Shared record
- Separate shifts in meaning27–37 minutes from the start (10 minutes)
Action: Separate. Participation: Small groups gathered around the records.
Shared record
- Record limits of use37–45 minutes from the start (8 minutes)
Action: Record. Participation: Small groups gathered around the records.
Shared record
Facilitation steps
- For 7 minutes, select at least 3 non-overlapping anonymised original accounts each from sets A and B.
- For 10 minutes, each side creates candidate terms for its original accounts and writes them with the minimum necessary context in the 4-column table.
- For 10 minutes, the other side reads the candidate terms and minimum necessary context, then restates the original situation of use on the trial-reading forms.
- For 10 minutes, disclose the original accounts, compare them with the trial readings, and classify each as the same meaning, narrower meaning, broader meaning, or unable to judge.
- For 8 minutes, record situations where shifted candidate terms cannot be used and retain only terms whose intended situations could be reconstructed.
If something changes
If
For at least one candidate term, neither of the 2 readers can restate the original situation of use during reverse reading.
Then
Do not move that term to the adopted column; retain the original wording unchanged.
Preparation
Materials
- Non-overlapping sets A and B of anonymised original accounts (at least 3 accounts in each set)
- Trial-reading forms showing only a candidate term and the minimum necessary context (1 per account)
- A 4-column table for the original account, candidate term, reverse reading, and limits of use (1 per group)
- Pens (1 per person)
Room and setup
- Record outside the table how the original accounts were collected and what was anonymised.
- Separate the creators of sets A and B and position them so neither can see the other's original accounts.
Adjust for people and time
With 4 participants, 2 people create candidate terms for set A and 2 for set B, then test one another's terms while the original accounts remain hidden. With 5–16, also divide into sides A and B, seeing only the original accounts on your own side. Reveal the other side's original accounts only after answers are fixed. With 17 or more, use separate sessions of no more than 16; do not let anyone who has already seen an original account test that account's candidate term.
Safety and non-applicable situations
Use anonymised, non-overlapping original accounts and keep the other side's accounts hidden until answers are fixed. Do not use prior readers as testers of the same original account. Do not replace statutory professional terms or people's self-chosen names by majority vote; retain original wording when reverse reading fails.
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