Links are very interesting.
To me, they are a metalanguage, a kind of counter-narrative to the post discourse.
(Yes I know this is over the top academic but it is Christmas).
Links are like metaphors in poems, they draw your attention out of the poem and into somewhere else.
I like the way Dr Joolz does her links - she writes this and this and we don't know what this is.
I think that is called deixis but we need the linguists for that.
ALso, I like doing what I call oxymoronic links.
Do you remember oxymorons at school (no they weren't what you think)
They are two opposites put together.
This is when I am writing about something, like sound, and my links are to silence.
I did that in the post yesterday.
Actually that is why I think I like links.
They subvert the post.
PS Can you work out the connections between the links in this post?
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Links can be like footnotes or references. Thats academic!
I love these links, one made me laugh out loud, two made me smile, one confused me and one made me think. And one made me start a blog so I can leave comments on yours. you are forgiven.
I think you are right it is deixis- Margaret Meek has written a thing called Speaking of Shifters about deictic shifters (what is mine to me is yours to you, what is here to me is there to you..) But I cannot guess the link in your links even though there are some v good ones, especially cardboatcard!!
The links are excellent.I LOVE the cardboatcard. So clever.
I remember seeing some of the links before but I do not think they have all been up before.
What are the links in the links?
Hurrah!
I have encouraged a new blogger.
The answer is they are all my favourite sites.
There. You have it.
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