Volumetric Writing Grammar Glossary

{
  "title": "Volumetric Writing Grammar Glossary",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "term_count": 47,
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "accuracy",
      "definition": "Correspondence between the text, intended meaning, and supportable world or source state."
    },
    {
      "term": "action_path",
      "definition": "The sequence that takes a reader from understanding to the intended next action."
    },
    {
      "term": "active_voice",
      "definition": "A clause pattern in which the grammatical subject normally represents the actor or experiencer."
    },
    {
      "term": "addressable_space",
      "definition": "All rule-and-context combinations the system can evaluate, not necessarily generate."
    },
    {
      "term": "antecedent",
      "definition": "The expression to which a later pronoun or reference expression points."
    },
    {
      "term": "claim",
      "definition": "A proposition offered as true, probable, valuable, causal, definitional, predictive, or advisable."
    },
    {
      "term": "clause",
      "definition": "A unit organized around a predicate and its participants or circumstances."
    },
    {
      "term": "cohesion",
      "definition": "Surface links such as reference, repetition, substitution, conjunction, and lexical relation."
    },
    {
      "term": "coherence",
      "definition": "The reader-recoverable conceptual and rhetorical unity of a text."
    },
    {
      "term": "condition",
      "definition": "A circumstance that must hold for a rule, claim, or action to apply."
    },
    {
      "term": "context_default",
      "definition": "A rule that normally improves the target genre or audience but may yield to a documented reason."
    },
    {
      "term": "copy",
      "definition": "Persuasive writing designed to influence a defined decision or action."
    },
    {
      "term": "creative_option",
      "definition": "A controlled alternative offered for rhetorical effect rather than enforced."
    },
    {
      "term": "dependency",
      "definition": "A grammatical or content-system relation in which one element relies on another."
    },
    {
      "term": "discourse_relation",
      "definition": "The logical or rhetorical connection between propositions or passages."
    },
    {
      "term": "evidence",
      "definition": "Information used to support, test, bound, or challenge a claim."
    },
    {
      "term": "evidence_debt",
      "definition": "The support obligation created by a specific or consequential claim."
    },
    {
      "term": "genre",
      "definition": "A recurring communication form with characteristic reader expectations and moves."
    },
    {
      "term": "given_information",
      "definition": "Information the reader can already identify from context or shared knowledge."
    },
    {
      "term": "hard_constraint",
      "definition": "A requirement that must pass or block publication or action."
    },
    {
      "term": "heuristic",
      "definition": "A useful diagnostic or ranking rule that does not guarantee an outcome."
    },
    {
      "term": "information_type",
      "definition": "A structured topic such as concept, task, reference, or troubleshooting."
    },
    {
      "term": "LAKA",
      "definition": "A multidimensional diagnostic and transformation grid for decomposing, varying, selecting, routing, and reviewing interventions."
    },
    {
      "term": "layer",
      "definition": "The scale at which a writing object exists, from signal to content system."
    },
    {
      "term": "meaning",
      "definition": "The conceptual, relational, pragmatic, and emotional content a reader recovers."
    },
    {
      "term": "message_scent",
      "definition": "Continuity between a source message and the destination it leads to."
    },
    {
      "term": "minimal_pair",
      "definition": "Two examples differing in one controlled feature so its effect can be evaluated."
    },
    {
      "term": "nominalization",
      "definition": "A noun form that represents an action, process, or quality."
    },
    {
      "term": "outcome",
      "definition": "The intended change in what a reader knows, feels, decides, or does."
    },
    {
      "term": "paragraph_move",
      "definition": "The main rhetorical job performed by a paragraph."
    },
    {
      "term": "passive_voice",
      "definition": "A clause pattern that promotes the receiver or result while demoting or omitting the actor."
    },
    {
      "term": "plain_language",
      "definition": "Communication designed so intended readers can find, understand, and use what they need."
    },
    {
      "term": "predicate",
      "definition": "The central expression of an event, action, process, relation, or state."
    },
    {
      "term": "propagation",
      "definition": "The degree to which a local issue or change affects dependent units."
    },
    {
      "term": "rhetorical_situation",
      "definition": "The author, audience, purpose, text, and setting that constrain communication."
    },
    {
      "term": "rule_strength",
      "definition": "The enforcement class: hard constraint, context default, heuristic, or creative option."
    },
    {
      "term": "scope",
      "definition": "The amount of text or system affected by an issue or intervention."
    },
    {
      "term": "smallest_sufficient_intervention",
      "definition": "The least invasive change that fully resolves the diagnosed failure without creating a larger one."
    },
    {
      "term": "subtext",
      "definition": "Meaning carried indirectly beneath a character’s or speaker’s literal words."
    },
    {
      "term": "syntax",
      "definition": "The structural relations and order by which words and phrases form clauses and sentences."
    },
    {
      "term": "task_success",
      "definition": "The degree to which a reader completes the intended action correctly and safely."
    },
    {
      "term": "tone",
      "definition": "A local adaptation of voice to subject, reader state, and moment."
    },
    {
      "term": "truth_condition",
      "definition": "The conditions under which a proposition would be true or false."
    },
    {
      "term": "usability",
      "definition": "The degree to which readers can find, understand, and use the content."
    },
    {
      "term": "voice",
      "definition": "The stable relationship and character projected by a text."
    },
    {
      "term": "volumetric_grammar",
      "definition": "A grammar system that evaluates language across interacting linguistic, rhetorical, contextual, dynamic, and outcome dimensions."
    },
    {
      "term": "warrant",
      "definition": "The reasoning that connects evidence to a claim."
    }
  ]
}