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<font face="Courier New, Courier"> 1. When
I studied BUC with computer for my PhD I never read its<br>
texts. My professor told me that I have not
Phylological love to<br>
words. But once I stumbled at one
phenomenon. There was text with<br>
fiction "stuff" in the "reportage" genre. I
read it. The reason was<br>
obvious. The text was about Inauguration of Kennedy. It was the
first<br>
time I saw that the text which is "fiction"
itself appears as the<br>
reportage one.<br>
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2. Last Summer I read a two-volume
"The Don Juan Papers". They<br>
proved that famous Castaneda writings were softly "not true".
But they<br>
split the problem in two parts - authenticity (A) and
validity (V).<br>
As if two dimensions of truth: X-axis and Y-axis.
Castaneda lied.<br>
There was no Don Juan etc. It was A. But the
concepts he described<br>
were true (V).<br>
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3. More simply. So that you could
critisize me easier. The girls<br>
I met often told me that I would not recognise them if they'd
change<br>
their dress. Then I realised that the girl is one thing and her
dress<br>
is smth different :-).<br>
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4. Back to our genres. I think we
should tag (as our No 1 David<br>
Lee teaches us) our texts with two dimensions (sets) of tags. One
for<br>
a text itself. David calls it register. And another set
of tags for<br>
the text membership to the genre as it appeared in the publication.<br>
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So we could be free to describe the
genre pattern of specific<br>
country, time etc. with our set of tags.<br>
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And with another set of tags we could describe
the various kinds<br>
of texts as they are. So - girls and their dresses with different
set<br>
of tags. As if X- and Y-axis. And - moreofit. It could be possible
to<br>
"catch" smth interesting on this X-Y plane. I mean
comparison - which<br>
text registers are used in which genres (which dresses girls
use for<br>
which reasons). I mean - the relationship between inner
text nature<br>
and its outer use. Instead of smashing and squeezing the
matter into<br>
one point.<br>
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Vladimir Rykov<br>
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