"literal information" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe information that is factual and not interpreted figuratively. For example, "The report contained literal information about the number of people affected by the disaster."
Freewheel through the infinite Wikigalaxy, where constellations of articles on simil subjects are linked by colourful meteor paths that act like literal information superhighways.
Whether the texts are narrative or expository, tests must assess different comprehension levels, which involve the abilities to: (a) identify literal information; (b) make inferences; (c) reorganize information and; (d) make critical judgments (Alderson, 2000).
Connotations count just as much as literal information.
Perhaps the ADS, like many fraternal societies and brotherhoods, uses literal information allegorically.
For death certificates from 1904 through 1955, a nosologist with a University of Utah research project used the literal information and coded cause of death to ICD revision 10 using the 2000 Medical Data System and supplemented this system with hand coding.
Either singly or in combination, the two binaries — words vs. images and literal, information-bearing words vs. words aiming to persuade — have led to a search for what Thomas Kuhn has called a "neutral observation language," a super-literal language uninflected and uninfected by the distortions of any human, or as Leon terms it, "subjective" perspective.
Studies on expert behavior in medicine, for instance, show that experts have more coherent explanations for patient problems, make more inferences from the data and provide fewer literal interpretations of information (Van de Wiel et al. 2000).
Things like that as an actor, they are not literal pieces of information like 'he walks like this or he does this', but you understand the profound insightful nature of the man.
So then, a lesson followed by closed questions tapping literal and inferential information in e-learning could be measuring memory, or test-taking strategies.
However, one interviewee, who had acted as an interpreter for others, offered a valuable insight into the dilemma that interpreters, particularly professional interpreters, face in that they are trained to act as literal conduits for information rather than acting as a patient advocate.
Human communication in a natural context implies the dynamic coordination of contextual clues, paralinguistic information and literal as well as figurative language use.
