The productive nature of this novel may lie in the uneasy cohabitation of these various discursive fields and in the variability of their coding – it may undercode at times and overcode at others.

The reason for this is that when you ask why questions people feel defensive and have a tendency to dexify (defend, explain, justify) what they said.

You see, I am a hen-peck, he said.

to scrub a floor