"I don't know, Tim. I'm completely in the dark…" That was when the lights went out. Suddenly it was pitch-black in the room. At the same time there was a click and a rush of cool air as the door was opened, and […]
OED: “dark, n.” 5: in a state of ignorance; without knowledge as regards some particular fact. OED: "dark, n." 1: absence of light; dark state or condition; darkness, esp. that of night Two annotations on different levels of communication (Change of Communication Level).
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completely in the dark
without knowledge in regard to this question [phrasal]
in a place without light [compositional]
dependent elements, may differentiate between meanings or carry meaning themselves (e.g. phoneme, grapheme, morpheme)
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independent elements, may consist of subelements and carry meaning (e.g. word)
structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).
one or more elements and/or complex elements, which may be structurally linked and form a self-contained unit of meaning (e.g. sentence; group of figures)
the part of a whole which carries a message, is thematically essentially self-contained, and which is structurally and/or thematically separated from the whole it belongs to (e.g. section of text/discourse/speech; picture (with cotext))
network of thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked sub-units, separated and independent from other complexes, and complete in itself (e.g. text; discourse; speech; poem; dramatic text; picture and circumstances of reception)
an in principle indefinite amount of thematically, structurally and/or functionally comparable complexes (e.g. thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked texts/discourses/speeches/pictures in comparison; political debate)
TYPE 3: reanalysis ORDER: P: Par1; R: Par1-->Par1+Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: non-linguistic context; cognitive context
TYPE 3: reanalysis ORDER: P: Par1+Par2; R: Par1-->Par1+Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: cognitive context; linguistic context (metalinguistic strategies)
