in which the deictic element "here" assumes a double meaning and points both to the referred scene and the insertion's locutionary act itself
even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
on the "(i.e., the therapist)" used in Depressed Person
the real "problem" of the text is the way in which the narrator adopts and/or simulates the protagonist's subjective stance and idiolect.
on The Depressed Person
The second example is footnote 119, a brief comment on the clause "guys in the Guy division have to slide out on a plastic telephone pole slathered with Vaseline (336-7). The footnote inserts a laconic "(the pole)", which combines rhetorical distance with a boundless "drive for disambiguation" to m…
