from NES Leon James, 1975 C

                            

            ANNOTATION =    Text-ing text
                                            Writing
                                            Writing one text keyed to another text

         First Text                   Second Text or Annotation
e.g.   READING                  DISCOURSE THINK REPORTS

                                           SUMMARIES and PARAPHRASING

                                           OTHER RECODINGS
                                                  (e.g. transcripts, indices, abstracts,
                                                   formal notation systems for data, etc.)

e.g.   TALK:MOVE            REPLY MOVE (TOPICALIZATION)

                                            (thus: all reply moves in conversation are
                                            ANNOTATIONS of a particular sort)

     [OR:  If you stipulate that REPLY MOVES are ANNOTATIONS to MOVES topically, then we can predicate the following about topicalization... etc --- showing how what's already known about ANNOTATION could this be applied to topicalization.)
    [Q.:  "If all text is stipulated as ANNOTATION, the consequent predications appear interesting with many visible pragmatic implications for language teaching as well as language using --- education. diplomacy, therapy, relationships, etc." Develop this argument]

                                                                    Sample Glossary Index Card

                                                                     Illustration:  Forward and Backward
                                                                               Editing of a Paragraph
    
     Forward Editing requires the resolution of deictic units in the paragraph:  (see ARGUMENT FUNCTION)
     Backward Editing requires un-framing, which is a partial argument patterned on the original but serving a personal function.

                                                                                              Level 1
                                                                          ANNOTATION TECHNIQUES
                                                                           Paraphrastic Transformations
    [ K. Burke, A. Grammar of Motives, 1945)(p. 33)]
First-level Transform: re-arrangement of words.

Forward Editing cum Deictic Resolutions

[a]  dialectic substance derives its character from the antinomies attendant upon the fact that we necessarily define a thing in terms of somthing.
[b] else.................................it is the overall category of dramatism
[c] dialectic substance treats of human motives in terms of verbal action
[d] dramatistic analysis of motives has its point of departure in the subject of verbal action (in thought, speech and document)

Second-level Transform: re-arrangement of words
  -Backward Editing cum Argument Un-framing
  -Personal re-interpretation

[a] verbal action occurs in thoughts, speech, and document
[b] dramatism treats human motives in the terms of verbal action
[c] the overall category of dramatism is "dialectic substance"
[d] we necessarily define a thing in terms of something else: this is an antinomy of dialectic substance; that is an expliat irony.

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