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Linguistic indicators of point of view
Our answer for task G
It would have been normal to get this information packaged as one clause
(eg. 'Conchis appeared in the door' ,as most of the time perception and
recognition are co-terminous for us. The fact that we are told first that
a figure appeared and then that it was Conchis indicates two different
moments of perception and cognition for the narrator through whose eyes
we see the events.
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We can infer that first he see a figure,
which he can't identify:
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Then, a split second later,
he realises who it is:
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Hence we are given not just what happened but also a particularised perception
of what happened.
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