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。

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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。

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Who knows? Maybe we'll try on some other occasion, but for the moment I think you can see that in making remarks of this kind about a text one has shifted the attention from meaning to structure.

我们也许会在以后讲到它，谁知道呢，但是我想你们应该已经看出来,我们的重点已经从内容,转移到了形式。

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