Carrie is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.

Defendant then ran forward to kick him (witness) and he gave a jook. Defendant was very unruly, and used bad language.

Any objective explanation of the logic of this term as undertaken, for instance, by F. MACHLUP in his essay, 'Three Concepts of the Balance of Payments and the so-called Dollar Shortage' (Economic Journal, March 1950), is usually received very testily by the exponents of a collectivist and inflationary avant-gardism, firstly, because they object to the proof that the balance of payments rights itself without the polypragmatism of economic planning if only the opposite of their beloved policy is pursued, and secondly because they are bitterly opposed to the proof that their own policy is responsible for the 'adverse balance of payments'.

The unit of comparison within this procedure is the texteme, which is defined as a linguistic unit of any type and level, participating in textual relationships and, as a result, carrying textual functions (Toury 1980: 108). The texteme, then, pertains to the level of the text function, it is a concept that directly mediates between the macrostructure and the microstructure. Any texteme can be broken down into elements belonging to a lower order.