round to reading it at some point.
Pronouns and procedural meaning: The relevance of spaghetti code and
paranoid delusion
David Cram and Paul Hedley
Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
(2005), vol. 10, pages 187-210.
http://mostlyharmless.org.uk/linguistics/documents/cramhedley-web.pdf
It'
Spaghetti code is a programming term for poorly written software code
that jumps around using GOTO statements. The author consider this
analogous to the use of pronouns to structure sentences.
The authors begin to break down the cognitive linguisitic process in
people experiencing paranoiddelusions using whatlooks like guess work
though it may be logical reasoning and inference rather than what a lay
person might consider guesswork.
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