ABSTRACT
The process of discourse draws on context and language to create text. Part I is concerned with that process. More specifically, however, it is concerned with the acceptability of text, because a text cannot be said to exist for the person who reads or hears it unless that person accepts it as such. Within every culture certain standards of text, whether spoken or written, are considered by the majority of hearers or readers to be “acceptable,” whereas other standards, by contrast, are considered “unacceptable.” What constitutes acceptable or unacceptable text to an interpreter is, to a large extent, controlled by the language of the text as well as by the context in which the text appears.
