On Mon, February 28, 2011 11:17 am, David Starner wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
 CHAPTER I.
Please explain to me which discourse, point or idea the above mentioned most common of all chapter titles deals with.
"We are starting the main text of the book, the part labeled 1."
But note that the text "CHAPTER I" is still not a paragraph (which should not imply that a chapter title cannot be a paragraph, just that this one is not). It is a name or identifier. It is certainly possible to imply a paragraph that refers to this identifier, such as "The section of text that follows can be identified by the name 'CHAPTER I'", but the mere mention of the identifier does not necessarily imply the paragraph. Furthermore, any such implied paragraph is metadata; it is not part of the narrative. It is someone on the outside, looking in, saying "Look! I recognize an identifier." Cheers, Lee