E.g. a, does she think of me so often! The dash and dots (suspension marks) create emotional pauses to mark indecision, uncertainty, nervousness. E.g. Well, he is a..he is a kind of acquaintance. In dialogue the dash and dots are used to render the speech realistically. To show that speakers don't listen one another. Quotation mark serve to single out either the speech of characters or their thoughts that remain unuttered. Words or phrases may be used with quot marks to imply that they belong to other characters and the author himself feels ironic about them. Sometimes quot marks are used to show that words are used in some specific or narrower meaning. Capital letters are involved in personification and antonomasia. Words may contain only capital letters for emphatic purposes. E.g. WILL YOU BE QUIET! He shouted. It is a tradition to begin every poetic line with a capital letter
paragraph 3 beats). 3. The stylistic function of the full stop may be different: over-stopping and under-stopping. In the over-stopping the full stop is used abundantly, separating words or phrases that normally do not form a sentence. Over-stopping creates a peculiar abrupt rhythm. Under-stopping - too few full stops may also reflect the dynamic, rhythmical features of the text. 4. The inverted commas for quotation marks may signal the unuttered thoughts of characters or they may suggest that these words or phrases belong to other characters and the author feels ironic about these words, or these words or phrases are used in a specific narrowed meaning. 5. The indented line also belongs to punctuation marks. In scientific the new paragraph is developing a new idea. In fiction paragraph division influences the reader, it adds connotations ()
"). Over-stopping creates a peculiar abrupt rhythm. Under-stopping - too few full stops may also reflect the dynamic, rhythmical features of the text. The two devices are especially favoured by modernist writers (e.g. T. S. Elliot "Triumphal Marsh", or an extreme case of under-stopping is the last chapter of J. Joyce's novel Ulysses no single punctuation mark for 40 pages). 4. The inverted commas for quotation marks may signal the unuttered thoughts of characters or they may suggest that these words or phrases belong to other characters and the author feels ironic about these words, or these words or phrases are used in a specific narrowed meaning. 5. The indented line also belongs to punctuation marks. In scientific prose the paragraph division is caused by logical treatment of the problem the new paragraph is developing a new idea
might constrain speaker-meaning in general. But the Gricean will still have to explain why this happens so robustly.) Obstacle 2 Most meaningful sentences of a language are never uttered at all. Therefore no one has ever meant anything by them. Therefore their meanings can hardly be determined by what speakers (normally, typically, and so on) mean by them (Platts 1979: 89). It is not much use, though tempting, to appeal to what speakers would have meant by the unuttered sentences had they uttered them. For one thing, the vast majority of those sentences are ones that the speakers would never have uttered. Even for a sentence that the speakers might have uttered even 94 Theories of meaning though they did not, the only handle we have on what the speakers would have meant in uttering it is what we already know that sentence to mean. Obstacle 3 Novel sentences again. Even when a sentence is actually uttered, it may be