For the purposes of this text, we will use the CRC's definition of 'child', which refers to 'every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier' [ 5].
"Of course, words are given meaning by context, and context includes the purpose of the text".
In it, Breyer urges judges to interpret legal provisions (of the Constitution or of statutes) in light of the purpose of the text and how well the consequences of specific rulings will fit those purposes.
Thus he states that for evolutionary times over one million years, he uses a molecular clock of 2% per million years, but the reader understands why this is an approximation, what factors affect the accuracy of the estimate, and why it is nevertheless a useful rate for the purposes of the text.
This begs the question, what is the purpose of standardizing text complexity bands if testing companies do not have to adhere to them?
For more than a year now I've been rescuing Nigerian fraudster e-mails from my spam folder and reading them in the hope of discovering one like a missive I accidentally deleted, where the faker transcended the raw purpose of his text and began to develop a richer narrative with characters, twists, subplots and sudden reversals of fortune — a kind of Nigerian Daniel Defoe, per Moll Flanders.
Two students who did in fact find the difference intriguing, Guenter Plum and Joan Rothery, suggested positioning functional tenor as a deeper variable, since the purpose of a text influenced all of interpersonal, ideational and textual meaning.
--Thirty-eight percent of consumers would provide their mobile number for the purpose of receiving text messages and 32percentt would share their social handles with retailers.
"They will come if it's free" One group unanimously decried the purpose of a text messaging programme.
