hi
my name's make sure alarm professor of english language and literature lancaster
i'm interested in
how when people read texts particularly nature of text
how they manage to get a problem the words on the page to the mean
age
and also
how text okay
i'm going to try and
sure you extracting
also helps people not addressed to understand expect that but also to appreciate and joy
are shown to you by analysing the variational probably why don't you ain't cool
you we use four plots
i mean tell you just a little bit about how empirical we look at it
it's a time-invariant right and appears to be
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you declared if you have that what's however
you would give them to
but in fact it doesn't have them use pool
and so incredibly fast low
so the value of slot appears to go up comparison
it's if you like to be like the parables the we might
well
if we look at the cutting mostly that a one otherwise in which the hidden
the important parts
become important is that i
take out the description takes out how of the power
the amount of the probably in the past a way
in being equal
is very small white house
and i'm going to concentrate on a couple of the lines where
the probably the also scroll it
but that's first of all
read the problem through
so that you can understand better what i'm doing
you'll see that the two times that i've decided to concentrate on a bold in
the display so easy to spot
how do i have an embroidered clock
and rule with gold and silver light
the blue and the team on the dot crawl
night and light on the offline
i would rate the clock on the three
but i
being equal
have a reminder e
i sprayed my three on
right so
the college utrecht
and we concentrate on a part of the home which describes the cross you can
see that apart from satellite in the first line
the first four hundred just descriptions of the cross
the pointing to noun phrases which describes across the first one is the haven't embroidered
for and what we go one and two right
and
there are two big metaphors in that line which make all those lines which make
clause difficult to understand and i think what they starting the problem is to make
the low pay intangible and mystical in some way
this is because first of all
that happens clocks we don't normally associate plots with paper we associate with we will
and then secondly if we look at the relative to have a small defined worked
well
we can see that it says animal with goal going to light and then we'll
this kind of thing that semantic we normally applies to metallic thing is not possible
then if we go on to the next two lines which we wonder what concentrate
on my mother who you get another noun phrase the blue and the t and
the dark rules
a light and light
if we do this line in more detail we can see that the head nodding
head noun close to the end of the first line has already modifiers which are
coordinated together
you unusually so
the blue and the d dot
and then after the whole across you get three how small because which are also
coordinated to get a
all right and light and the whole flight
and then we expect them to relate to one another in terms of sequence
so you'd expect the three modifiers coming off to i two matching sequences three modifiers
coming before that i
but actually what unites does used to choose the only possible combination mathematical whereby each
impossible to line them up
i shown this notice by the different colours like blue should go light
no i should go dark and d to go off glide
you know what he's making it difficult for you to understand difficult to process and
he's doing that for reasons
the reason is that it makes a quasi mystical related to have an
and therefore much value
so that when we get to
the young man himself and him spreading dreams on the only sweet
those streams have become more important