ABSTRACT
The previous chapter concerned the part of language that depicts, a kind of language that cannot ‘propositionize’. This chapter approaches the mystery of the other aspect of conversation that is the vehicle of, and can make connected, the incomplete utterances of the language of depiction. This second, propositioning, syntactical type of speech has the figurative structure of ‘pointing’. It has the quality of intentionality. In making possible a connected series of depictions, or scenes, it provides the skeletal basis of a story, which is a larger form of picturing.
