ABSTRACT
The integrational scale is concerned with the fitting together of various patterns and features of communicational behaviour in ways which make sense to the participants. Modern civilization shows no sign as yet of the abandonment of graffiti as a popular form of protest in urban environments. The term semantic enclave is defined by Wallis as 'that part of a work of art which consists of signs of a different kind or from a different system than the signs of which the main body of that work of art consists'. A Martian invader who could read English tolerably well but knew nothing at all about the organization of traffic in England might conceivably suppose that the post was some kind of shrine dedicated to a deity called Oxford. On the macrosocial scale, Shah Jahan had no option but to have his texts in Arabic, given the political and religious structures prevailing in seventeenth-century Agra.
