We call it a function. That is to say it has a function; it has a function within our understanding of the way in which a text has structure.

我们之所以称之为功能是因为它有功能;,我们文本结构的角度,去认识这种功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.

也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质,我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Every aspect of the structure of the text can be understood as having a function.

文本结构的每一方面都能被理解为,有特定的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's like the New Critics saying that a text has structure.

这就像是新批评主义的说法，那就是文本有自己的结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选