ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we turn to the third and final cluster of strings, external
perspectives. This cluster comprises strings of English that a speaker or writer
uses to describe the external world as “objectively” as possible, with few traces
of an inner mind that can get in the way of the audience’s direct experience of
the world described. Sustained over a long enough course, these descriptive
strings can make an audience feel it is not reading at all, but experiencing
immersive situations firsthand.
