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d) All informants identified the beginning sentence in the last
paragraph as constituting the OMCC3: "And all the time Ibn Saud was
himself on trial."
e) Only two informants identified a 4th OMCC in a sentence halfway
between the beginning and end of the last paragraph: "If he
hesitated, showed ignorance of the law or the customs, weakness,
or lacked in judgement, the watching crowds squatting round him in
the sunlight noted it".
f) All informants agreed that accessory meaning was best represented
in the trial scenes in which Ibn Saud, the claimants and the
defendants were involved.
Divergences over the identification of layers of meaning in a text are
due to the relative inability to discriminate between the various
functions and roles of each specific category of meaning. Obligatory
meaning, it should be emphasized, is focal to the propositional make-up
of the text. Any topical sentence marking a significant turning-point
in the course of textual meaning could be identified. Obligatory
meaning is the one aspect of meaning which should not be discarded,
modified or under-sized. Obligatory meaning does not necessarily lodge
in specific control centres or in topical sentences. It can be
extended or carried over somel.here later as the theme progresses.
Accessory meanings reinforce the skeletal or obligatory meaning.
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