"Of course I have. Ever since I read about that ice-skater getting killed…" "Rushmore," I muttered. "The late Eightysix", Tim added. "Yeah," I said. "They finally got his number." Charlotte sat down and waved us both to a seat.
OED: "number, n." P4: colloq. one's number is up and variants: one's time (to die, etc.) has come, one is finished or doomed.OED: "number, n." P7: to get a person's number: to have or make an accurate assessment of a person's true character, motives, weaknesses, etc.Two annotations on different levels of communication (Change of Communication Level).
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got his number
understood his character, capabilities, or situation
judged him ready to die
knew his tricot number
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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 2: unresolved ambiguityORDER: P: Par1+Par2+Par3; R: ?CONTEXT FEATURES: cognitive context; linguistic context (salience, language knowledge); sociocultural context
TYPE 2: unresolved ambiguityORDER: P: Par1+Par2+Par3; R: Par1+Par2+Par3CONTEXT FEATURES: cognitive context; linguistic context (salience, language knowledge); sociocultural context (characters)
