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ka rangi te mobo
moho . . .
This text has a linear manifestation to which I cannot order any content, although some of my readers probably would since it seems it was originally a Maori poem.
At this level there takes place the phonetic interpretation, particularly important for texts such as (3) and (4), but to be disregarded during the following analysis, where, dealing with narrative texts, I am obviously more interested in 'higher' boxes. See, however, Theory (3.7.4) for a discussion on the "further segmentation of the expression plane" taking place in aesthetic texts. See also in Theory the sections on ratio difficilis and invention (3.4.9, 3.6.7, 3.6.8) concerning those cases in which the manipulation of the expression plane radically involves the very nature of codes. The essay on Edenic language (Chapter 3) indirectly deals with these problems.
0.4.2.
Figure 0.3 considers an immediate connection between the text linear manifestation and the act of utterance (which in Figure 0.2 is included among the circumstances orienting presuppositions).
In this connection between sentence and utterance (énoncé and énonciation), the addressee of any text immediately detects whether the sender wants to perform a propositional act or another kind of speech act. If the text is structurally simple and if it explicitly aims at indicating, ordering, questioning, and so on, probably the addressee switches alternately from box 2 to box 10, therefore deciding both what the sender is meaning andin terms of mentioning somethingwhether he is lying or telling the truth, whether he is asking or ordering something possible or impossible, and so on. Other boxes can be further activated according to the complexity of the text and to the subtlety of the addressee (hidden ideological structures can be presupposed even by a text such as /Come here, bastard!/).
When a fictional text is read, the reference to the act of utterance has instead other functions. This reference can take two forms. The more elementary results in establishing a sort of metatextual proposition such as «there is (was) a human individual who utters (uttered) the text I am presently reading and who asks for an act of suspension of disbelief since he is (was) speaking about a possible course of events». (Note that the same metatextual proposition works also for a scientific text, except for the suspension of disbeliefthe reader is on the contrary invited to especially trust the speaker.) More elaborate operations can be implemented when the reader tries to reconstruct for philological reasons the original circumstances of the utterance (historical period, ethnic or cultural profile of the speaker, and so on). In this case, as soon as these

 
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