0:00:00hi
0:00:01my name's make sure alarm professor of english language and literature lancaster
0:00:07i'm interested in
0:00:08how when people read texts particularly nature of text
0:00:13how they manage to get a problem the words on the page to the mean
0:00:16age
0:00:18and also
0:00:19how text okay
0:00:21i'm going to try and
0:00:23sure you extracting
0:00:25also helps people not addressed to understand expect that but also to appreciate and joy
0:00:32are shown to you by analysing the variational probably why don't you ain't cool
0:00:39you we use four plots
0:00:42i mean tell you just a little bit about how empirical we look at it
0:00:47it's a time-invariant right and appears to be
0:00:50a addressing the woman now santa clara mutual for
0:00:55you declared if you have that what's however
0:00:59you would give them to
0:01:01but in fact it doesn't have them use pool
0:01:04and so incredibly fast low
0:01:07so the value of slot appears to go up comparison
0:01:12it's if you like to be like the parables the we might
0:01:16well
0:01:18if we look at the cutting mostly that a one otherwise in which the hidden
0:01:22the important parts
0:01:24become important is that i
0:01:26take out the description takes out how of the power
0:01:31the amount of the probably in the past a way
0:01:33in being equal
0:01:35is very small white house
0:01:38and i'm going to concentrate on a couple of the lines where
0:01:41the probably the also scroll it
0:01:44but that's first of all
0:01:46read the problem through
0:01:47so that you can understand better what i'm doing
0:01:50you'll see that the two times that i've decided to concentrate on a bold in
0:01:55the display so easy to spot
0:01:59how do i have an embroidered clock
0:02:02and rule with gold and silver light
0:02:06the blue and the team on the dot crawl
0:02:10night and light on the offline
0:02:13i would rate the clock on the three
0:02:17but i
0:02:18being equal
0:02:20have a reminder e
0:02:22i sprayed my three on
0:02:25right so
0:02:27the college utrecht
0:02:30and we concentrate on a part of the home which describes the cross you can
0:02:36see that apart from satellite in the first line
0:02:41the first four hundred just descriptions of the cross
0:02:45the pointing to noun phrases which describes across the first one is the haven't embroidered
0:02:52for and what we go one and two right
0:02:56and
0:02:57there are two big metaphors in that line which make all those lines which make
0:03:03clause difficult to understand and i think what they starting the problem is to make
0:03:08the low pay intangible and mystical in some way
0:03:13this is because first of all
0:03:16that happens clocks we don't normally associate plots with paper we associate with we will
0:03:23and then secondly if we look at the relative to have a small defined worked
0:03:28well
0:03:29we can see that it says animal with goal going to light and then we'll
0:03:33this kind of thing that semantic we normally applies to metallic thing is not possible
0:03:41then if we go on to the next two lines which we wonder what concentrate
0:03:45on my mother who you get another noun phrase the blue and the t and
0:03:51the dark rules
0:03:53a light and light
0:03:57if we do this line in more detail we can see that the head nodding
0:04:01head noun close to the end of the first line has already modifiers which are
0:04:08coordinated together
0:04:10you unusually so
0:04:12the blue and the d dot
0:04:15and then after the whole across you get three how small because which are also
0:04:20coordinated to get a
0:04:22all right and light and the whole flight
0:04:26and then we expect them to relate to one another in terms of sequence
0:04:32so you'd expect the three modifiers coming off to i two matching sequences three modifiers
0:04:39coming before that i
0:04:42but actually what unites does used to choose the only possible combination mathematical whereby each
0:04:50impossible to line them up
0:04:53i shown this notice by the different colours like blue should go light
0:04:58no i should go dark and d to go off glide
0:05:03you know what he's making it difficult for you to understand difficult to process and
0:05:10he's doing that for reasons
0:05:12the reason is that it makes a quasi mystical related to have an
0:05:17and therefore much value
0:05:20so that when we get to
0:05:22the young man himself and him spreading dreams on the only sweet
0:05:28those streams have become more important