Re: Theory: Rhetorical markup

"Craig Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I think Jorn is right, that there is a large missing middle ground
> between the high-level goals and motivations of a writer and
> the low level devices used within a segment of discourse.

Thanks, that's the point I was hoping to make.  I'm afraid
my 'Catcher' example was poorly chosen, and I ended up
analysing it at a lower level than I would have liked.

There ought to be a general term for self-referential
passages in books, where the book itself is alluded to.
This is common in non-fiction, and especially in
introductions (which the opening of Catcher resembled).
More subtle are asides like 'to make a long story short'.