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Table 8.5 Initial screening    Comment
          Look for

C CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND Applying to the story as a whole

Circumstances                  Setting the scene

                               Attitude

                               Description of people, things and places

Clarification                   Assumptions

                               Intentions

                               Justification

                               Failing to do or say things an innocent person would

C CONSISTENCY

Divisions                      Prologue – critical issues – Epilogue

                               Backtracking and out of sequence topics

                               False boundaries to the statement (start and end)

Omitted topics                 Discontinuity words and phrases

                               Other clues

Subjective space v. objective  Compare the number of lines for each topic (subjective
time                           time) with the time taken in real life (objective time)

Linguistic codes               Breaches of linguistic codes

Emotions                       Failure to act as an innocent person would

                               False emotions

                               Fluid or erratic emotions

L LACK OF COMMITMENT

Any or all of >>>>>            Avoidance of FPSPT

                               Missing pronouns

                               Passive or conditional phrasing

                               Subjective truths

                               Reducing the significance of a topic

                               Projection and referral

                               Generalizations etc.

L LABELS                       Nouns and pronouns

Any or all of >>>              Inconsistent use

                               Relationships within sentences
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