Bilgewater: Foregrounded features
Task F - sentences 23-9
The deviation involved in the last example needs its surrounding context
to be understood. Below, for ease of reference, we have supplied the sentence
numbers for each sentence and boldened the stretch of text we want you
to consider.
What is deviant about the group of sentences 23-9
in the context of sentences 22 and 30, and what effect does this deviation
have?
(22) "Is there anything that you would like to
ask us?"
((23) "Yes please, why I'm here. (24) Whether I really want to
come even if you invite me. (25) What you're all like. (26) Have you
ever run mad for love? (27) Considered suicide? (28) Cried in the cinema?
(29) Clung to somebody in bed?")
(30) "No thank you. (31) I think Miss Blenkinsop-Briggs has already
answered my questions in the interview this morning."
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