She looked at her list again. Dust the furniture. "Did you ever hear of such a silly thing. At my house we undust the furniture. But to each his own way." Amelia Bedelia took one last look at the bathroom. She saw a big box with the words Dusting Powder on it. "Well, look at that. A special powder to dust with!" exclaimed Amelia Bedelia. So Amelia Bedelia dusted the furniture. "That should be dusty enough. My, how nice it smells."
The accompanying illustration shows Amelia Bedelia making the living room very dusty. Two annotations on different levels of communication (Change of Communication Level). Connected Entry, because the ambiguity is set up in waw190046 and resolved in waw190080.
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dust the furniture
remove the dust from the furniture
put dust on the furniture
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 1: unambiguous use ORDER: P: Par1; R: Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: sociocultural context
TYPE 3: reanalysis ORDER: P: Par1+Par2; R: Par1-->Par1+Par2 CONTEXT FEATURES: social context; cognitive context; linguistic context; non-linguistic co-text (illustration); sociocultural context (character)
