seldom interpret a writer's words exactly as the writer intended."

Even grammar has a social turn in writing: "It may be that to fully account for the contempt that some errors of usage arouse, we will have to understand better than we do the relationship between language, order, and those deep psychic forces that perceived linguistic violations seem to arouse in otherwise amiable people". So one cannot simply say a thing is right or wrong. There is a difference of degrees attributed to social forces.

Writing as a Social Activity

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