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Palinkasocsi Posted 17 years ago
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Dear Friends,
My corpus-based search has found matces for both but would you natives use 'the' in the following:
Discourse irony involves processing the more salient (though contextually incompatible) literal meaning initially, which is later revised to satisfy the contextual bias?
Thanks a lot.
Palinkasocsi
My corpus-based search has found matces for both but would you natives use 'the' in the following:
Discourse irony involves processing the more salient (though contextually incompatible) literal meaning initially, which is later revised to satisfy the contextual bias?
Thanks a lot.
Palinkasocsi
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That's quite a sentence! Yes, I would keep the . )
- That's quite a sentence!
- Yes, I would keep the .
- )
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That's quite a sentence! Yes, I would keep the. (Any might be a choice, as well, if it has not been established that there is a contextual bias.)
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Just an aside: "Incompatible" seems premature. It doesn't seem proper to describe something as "incompatible" without suggesting what it's incompatible with.
I understand what you're trying to say, but it comes out as, "the literal meaning is contextually incompatible." With what? Itself?
A thing may be, for example, "incongruous" all by itself. Two things may be
I understand what you're trying to say, but it comes out as, "the literal meaning is contextually incompatible." With what? Itself?
A thing may be, for example, "incongruous" all by itself. Two things may be
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Dear Avangi,
My original post was meant to say that the literal meaning is incompatible with the context. Don't you think that my sentence could mean that?
Palinkasocsi
My original post was meant to say that the literal meaning is incompatible with the context. Don't you think that my sentence could mean that?
Palinkasocsi
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I really don't. The version you have just quoted is fine. I think it's necessary to identify two things, A and B, as you have now done.
If the term "contextual incompatibility" were coined by some "authority," and it caught on, and came to be understood as involving two entities (the literal meaning and the contextual meaning) then it would be okay.
We use the term "marital inco
If the term "contextual incompatibility" were coined by some "authority," and it caught on, and came to be understood as involving two entities (the literal meaning and the contextual meaning) then it would be okay.
We use the term "marital inco
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