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The intervention of an epitext is designed precisely for this reason, to compensate, counteract, and remediate the more deleterious effects of an otherwise heathily growing perspective.  The epitext is meant to keep the end in view, to remind the participants in a communication of the type of text that is ultimately desirable to understand, but without demanding its complete unraveling within the immediate frame of time, nor taunting each other so severely with the distances that remain to their goals that all are daunted from continuing with the ongoing task.

The intervention of an epitext is designed precisely for this reason, to compensate, counteract, and remediate the more deleterious effects of an otherwise heathily growing perspective.  The epitext is meant to keep the end in view, to remind the participants in a communication of the type of text that is ultimately desirable to understand, but without demanding its complete unraveling within the immediate frame of time, nor taunting each other so severely with the distances that remain to their goals that all are daunted from continuing with the ongoing task.

But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,

| colspan="2" | But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,

My arms about my dearie, O,

An war'ly cares an war'ly men,

| width="5%"  |   || My arms about my dearie, O,

May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!

Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, O, [CPW, 81]

| colspan="2" | An war'ly cares an war'ly men,

| width="5%"  |   || May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!

| colspan="2" align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''Green Grow the Rashes, O'', [CPW, 81]

In this way, an epitext can serve a couple of functions within a text:

In this way, an epitext can serve a couple of functions within a text:

1. The epitext maintains an internal model of the informal context, the actual, intended, or likely "context of interpretation" (COI), or the typical "situation of communication" (SOC) that prevails in a given society of interpretive agents.  It does this by preserving a constant but gentle reminder of the type of text that ultimately demands to be understood within this social context.  In other words, it represents its social context in terms of its ideals, the  the expectation r that contains it dialogue between the epitext helps to provides an image of the dialogue that  

# The epitext maintains an internal model of the informal context, the actual, intended, or likely "context of interpretation" (COI), or the typical "situation of communication" (SOC) that prevails in a given society of interpretive agents.  It does this by preserving a constant but gentle reminder of the type of text that ultimately demands to be understood within this social context.  In other words, it represents its social context in terms of its ideals, the  the expectation r that contains it dialogue between the epitext helps to provides an image of the dialogue that  

 

# The epitext and the text are in a relation, analogous to a dialogue, that mirrors the relation of the text itself to its casual, informal, or social context.  In general, the analogy can be set up in either one of two ways, and can shift its sense from moment to moment:

2. The epitext and the text are in a relation, analogous to a dialogue, that mirrors the relation of the text itself to its casual, informal, or social context.  In general, the analogy can be set up in either one of two ways, and can shift its sense from moment to moment:

a. Epitext : Text  =  Context : Text.  Here, the epitext plays the part of common expectations, generic ideals, or social norms that are invoked in the process of communication.

a. Epitext : Text  =  Context : Text.  Here, the epitext plays the part of common expectations, generic ideals, or social norms that are invoked in the process of communication.

b. Epitext : Text  =  Text : Context.  Here, the epitext gives vent to the individual conceits, idiosyncratic caprices, or whims of the moment that are stirred up by the process of communication.

b. Epitext : Text  =  Text : Context.  Here, the epitext gives vent to the individual conceits, idiosyncratic caprices, or whims of the moment that are stirred up by the process of communication.

What type of text is best to use in an epitext, if it is going to achieve these stated objectives?  A "paragon of writing" (POW) is an apt title to give to the type of text at issue, since it marks the type of text that is originally desired to be understood and the type of text that ultimately demands to be understood.

What type of text is best to use in an epitext, if it is going to achieve these stated objectives?  A ''"paragon of writing'' is an apt title to give to the type of text at issue, since it marks the type of text that is originally desired to be understood and the type of text that ultimately demands to be understood.

The epitext acts as a kind of tether that helps to keep the end in view.  It maintains an internal model of the informal context and preserves a reminder of the kinds of texts that ultimately demand to be understood.  In this way, the epitext supplies a canon, a guideline, or a standard within the text, and secrets within the main text not only an image of the object to be analyzed but also an icon of the object to be achieved.  Naturally reflective texts, the kinds that occur in poems, in plays, and in other sorts of creative writing, are the best sources of stock for an epitext.  These kinds of text have a double relevance to the aims of AI.  As materials for analysis, they exemplify the character of real language use in natural settings.  As models for methods of analysis, they are capable of addressing complex issues in a casual fashion.  Because they are freely chosen from natural sources of exemplary laguage use, they can serve as examples for analysis that are realistic enough to exemplify the types of phenomena that one desires to understand and difficult enough to test the methods of analysis that one proposes to use.  Because it is their nature in part to reflect on their own nature as texts, they often contain insightful commentaries on this very nature.

Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears

Her noblest work she classes, O:

Her prentice han' she try'd on man,

An then she made the lasses, O.

Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, O, [CPW, 81]

 

The epitext acts as a kind of tether that helps to keep the end in view.  It maintains an internal model of the informal context and preserves a reminder of the kinds of texts that ultimately demand to be understood.  In this way, the epitext supplies a canon, a guideline, or a standard within the text, and secrets within the main text not only an image of the object to be analyzed but also an icon of the object to be achieved.  Naturally reflective texts, the kinds that occur in poems, in plays, and in other sorts of creative writing, are the best sources of stock for an epitext.  These kinds of text have a double relevance to the aims of AI.  As materials for analysis, they exemplify the character of real language use in natural settings.  As models for methods of analysis, they are capable of addressing complex issues in a casual fashion.  Because they are freely chosen from natural sources of exemplary language use, they can serve as examples for analysis that are realistic enough to exemplify the types of phenomena that one desires to understand and difficult enough to test the methods of analysis that one proposes to use.  Because it is their nature in part to reflect on their own nature as texts, they often contain insightful commentaries on this very nature.

 

| colspan="2" | Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears

| width="5%"  |   || Her noblest work she classes, O:

| colspan="2" | Her prentice han' she try'd on man,

| width="5%"  |   || An then she made the lasses, O.

| colspan="2" align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''Green Grow the Rashes, O'', [CPW, 81]

Let me then try to summarize the bearings that these poems and songs, these innocently reflective and innocuously self reverent types of texts, can be contemplated as having on the present inquiry, and again on the encompassing viability of AIR.  Their relevance is twofold, bearing on the matter in question from complementary directions:

Let me then try to summarize the bearings that these poems and songs, these innocently reflective and innocuously self reverent types of texts, can be contemplated as having on the present inquiry, and again on the encompassing viability of AIR.  Their relevance is twofold, bearing on the matter in question from complementary directions:

Second, there is their positive or productive bearing.  As hints of models and heralds of methods, these types of texts hold out some hope that a text can sensibly comment on the task of achieving its own style of communication, the writing of it, the sending of it, the reading of it.  More than that, their stock in variety of canonical styles helps to offer a cornucopia of constructive suggestions for ways of actually doing so.  The chance of a text being able to express a perceptive reflection comes near the heart of the present matter, and the likelihood of a text having the power to embody an insightful self commentary brings the immediate discussion within a heartbeat of the inquiry into inquiry, for if a writing can teach about writing then perhaps an inquiry can learn about inquiry.

Second, there is their positive or productive bearing.  As hints of models and heralds of methods, these types of texts hold out some hope that a text can sensibly comment on the task of achieving its own style of communication, the writing of it, the sending of it, the reading of it.  More than that, their stock in variety of canonical styles helps to offer a cornucopia of constructive suggestions for ways of actually doing so.  The chance of a text being able to express a perceptive reflection comes near the heart of the present matter, and the likelihood of a text having the power to embody an insightful self commentary brings the immediate discussion within a heartbeat of the inquiry into inquiry, for if a writing can teach about writing then perhaps an inquiry can learn about inquiry.

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