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Taka Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Echoing

We called this effect "choice blindness", echoing change blindness, the phenomenon identified by psychologists where a remarkably large number of people fail to spot a major change in their environment.

What does 'echoing' mean here?
  

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It refers to the similarity in form of the term "choice blindess" to the term "change blindness" (just like an echo is similar to the original sound).

— Mr Wordy

  • It refers to the similarity in form of the term "choice blindess" to the term "change blindness" (just like an echo is similar to the original sound).
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It refers to the similarity in form of the term "choice blindess" to the term "change blindness" (just like an echo is similar to the original sound).
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OK. So the notional subject, or the sense subject, of 'echoing' is not 'we' but 'choice blindness'?
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TakaOK. So the notional subject, or the sense subject, of 'echoing' is not 'we but 'choice blindness'?
I think it could be interpreted either way:

"In calling the effect 'choice blindness', we echoed 'change blindness'." (i.e. we invented a name similar to 'change blindness').

"We called the effect 'choice blindness', which echoed 'change bl
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I see.

MrW, if 'echoing...' was put in front of the main clause as:

Echoing change blindness, we called this effect "choice blindness".

how would it sound? Would it still sound OK?
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TakaEchoing change blindness, we called this effect "choice blindness".

how would it sound? Would it still sound OK?
It is grammatical, but it seems harder to understand. In the absence of any quote marks, the explanation that has now been lost served to clarify that the authors are referring to the term "change blindness", not the actual pheno
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