In today 's text and discourse linguistics we are ready for a return to the old rhetorical observation that certain aspects of linear ordering in texts must be viewed as icons of experience. In many instances, the order of constituents and clauses within the sentence and of sentences within the text can be manipulated to reveal isomorphisms with the order of experiences of, or things in, the world. Correspondingly, when decoding texts we actually tend to maximize their information by interpreting linear order as an exponent of temporal, spatial, causal, or socially conditioned order, whenever such interpretations seem plausible in light of the scripts, scenes, and frames of our experience.
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