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Signs: additional levels of abstraction

Additional linguistic abstractions are required:

MEANING SITUATION UTTERANCE
STRUCTURE Situated compositional sign
LAYOUT Logical Form Setting Text/image
APPEARANCE Denotation Environment Token
coordinates

tex2html_wrap_inline615 tex2html_wrap_inline617 Environment
tex2html_wrap_inline621 tex2html_wrap_inline617 Environment
Possibly tex2html_wrap_inline627

This model is confirmed by token-reflexives, highlights, accentuation, other `metalocutionary devices' --

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-- in which the Denotation IS the Token.

(Note: It is not clear to me why this token-reflexive pointing strategy is so intensely disliked by the schoolmasterly authors of HTML books ...)



Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Oct 21 15:49:14 MET DST 1998