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=====5.1.2.4. The Medium of Communication=====

=====5.1.2.4. The Medium of Communication=====

The gloomy night is gath'ring fast,

| The gloomy night is gath'ring fast,

Loud roars the wild inconstant blast;

Yon murky cloud is filled with rain,

| Loud roars the wild inconstant blast;

I see it driving o'er the plain;

The hunter now has left the moor,

| Yon murky cloud is filled with rain,

The scatt'red coveys meet secure;

While here I wander, prest with care,

| I see it driving o'er the plain;

Along the lonely banks of Ayr.

Robert Burns, The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast,

| The hunter now has left the moor,

[CPW, 250]

| The scatt'red coveys meet secure;

| While here I wander, prest with care,

| Along the lonely banks of Ayr.

| align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast'', [CPW, 250]

Before I can advance this discussion to a higher level of reflection on my own and other texts, in other words, to augment its participation in syntactic and textual processes beyond the level of rote recitation and routine replication of whatever text comes to mind, I need to introduce a minimal set of syntactic devices and textual mechanisms for adverting to and reflecting on syntactic entities and textual objects, in other words, for generating and interpreting, or else recognizing and elaborating, a level of references to objects that are themselves composed of signs and that therefore have the characters of complex signs in their own rights.

Before I can advance this discussion to a higher level of reflection on my own and other texts, in other words, to augment its participation in syntactic and textual processes beyond the level of rote recitation and routine replication of whatever text comes to mind, I need to introduce a minimal set of syntactic devices and textual mechanisms for adverting to and reflecting on syntactic entities and textual objects, in other words, for generating and interpreting, or else recognizing and elaborating, a level of references to objects that are themselves composed of signs and that therefore have the characters of complex signs in their own rights.

In general, signs that denote signs are called "higher order" (HO) signs, leaving the signs denoted to be referred to as "lower order" (LO) signs.  These form the subject of detailed discussions later on in this work, but the critical need for now is merely to make available an informal set of plausible devices for availing the discussion of names for pieces of text.  Thus, the tools that are required can be sufficiently well illustrated in their immediate applications to the present materials.

In general, signs that denote signs are called ''higher order'' (HO) signs, leaving the signs denoted to be referred to as ''lower order'' (LO) signs.  These form the subject of detailed discussions later on in this work, but the critical need for now is merely to make available an informal set of plausible devices for availing the discussion of names for pieces of text.  Thus, the tools that are required can be sufficiently well illustrated in their immediate applications to the present materials.

 

The Autumn mourns her rip'ning corn

By early Winter's ravage torn;

| The Autumn mourns her rip'ning corn

Across her placid, azure sky,

She sees the scowling tempest fly;

| By early Winter's ravage torn;

Chill runs my blood to hear it rave;

I think upon the stormy wave,

| Across her placid, azure sky,

Where many a danger I must dare,

Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.

| She sees the scowling tempest fly;

Robert Burns, The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast,

[CPW, 250]

| Chill runs my blood to hear it rave;

| I think upon the stormy wave,

| Where many a danger I must dare,

| Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.

| align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast'', [CPW, 250]

Depending on whether it is possible to adapt, appropriate, and otherwise make use of what HO signs are already extant in a field of discussion or whether it is necessary to create, invent, or otherwise make up further HO signs to denote the signs and the texts that one notices in an area, one finds that the sorts of syntactic devices, textual mechanisms, and reflective operators that one needs are divided into two broad camps:

Depending on whether it is possible to adapt, appropriate, and otherwise make use of what HO signs are already extant in a field of discussion or whether it is necessary to create, invent, or otherwise make up further HO signs to denote the signs and the texts that one notices in an area, one finds that the sorts of syntactic devices, textual mechanisms, and reflective operators that one needs are divided into two broad camps:

1. There are the anaclitic, ancillary, or auxiliary devices that an agent uses to imp out each HO connotative plane by extrapolating its indirections in novel directions, to allude in a connotative fashion to the current signs of signs and the established titles of texts, to sharpen up the reflective references already extant, and to take full advantage of the ancient orders of associations and the antecedent layers of citations that are already in place.

# There are the anaclitic, ancillary, or auxiliary devices that an agent uses to imp out each HO connotative plane by extrapolating its indirections in novel directions, to allude in a connotative fashion to the current signs of signs and the established titles of texts, to sharpen up the reflective references already extant, and to take full advantage of the ancient orders of associations and the antecedent layers of citations that are already in place.

 

# There are the creative, generative, or productive devices that an agent uses to eke out each HO denotative plane in the first place, to adduce the initial signs in that order, to create new HO signs, to refer in a denotative fashion to what thereby becomes an order of comparatively LO signs, and to issue HO citations of LO texts.

2. There are the creative, generative, or productive devices that an agent uses to eke out each HO denotative plane in the first place, to adduce the initial signs in that order, to create new HO signs, to refer in a denotative fashion to what thereby becomes an order of comparatively LO signs, and to issue HO citations of LO texts.

The connotative mechanism, relying on prior quotations and established titles, ...

The connotative mechanism, relying on prior quotations and established titles, ...

Acronyms.  

Acronyms.