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Posted by Ben C on 02/19/07 20:14
On 2007-02-19, Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
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> Saussure's distinction between langue and parole is relevant here.
> HTML expresses the parole or "speech" but the stable underlying
> meaning (which we need to recognise before we can attach a stable and
> relevant presentation to it) must depend on the langue or "language"
> instead.
I'm confused. Do you mean HTML itself is the speech, or that the
author's actual content is the speech?
You might think: HTML is a language, a document written in HTML is some
speech in that language. But I don't think that's what you mean: it
seems you a describing a different distinction, which I have trouble
grasping.
What, in terms accessible to the meanest intelligence, is Saussure's
distinction between langue and parole?
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> Presentation styling is added manually, but operates upon the meta-
> structure as a framework, rather than directly onto the structure.
Is "structure" to "speech" as "meta-structure" is to "language"?
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