My eyes perked up at the mention of predication in the notes below.  I've treated this subject in the context of the question of narration in film, and found that predication authority is one of the elements that to my mind require that we posit a cinematic narrator. The essay is here: 

















<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">&quot;The Cinematic Narrator: The Logic and
Pragmatics of Impersonal Narration,&quot; <i style>Journal
of Film and Video</i>, Vol. 42.1 (Spring 1990): 3-16.  A summary of this position is in New Vocabularies (profuse apologies for the self promotion, but I love this subject)!  Seymour Chatman has a different take on the question of predication in Coming to Terms. </span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="3">Robert<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="3"><br></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="3"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Cormac Deane <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1211%26L%3DFILM-PHILOSOPHY%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D215360%26B%3D--bcaec554dbd8a1f70204cfa5c919%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Christian Metz&#39;s &#39;Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film&#39; still stands the test of time (essay in <i>Film Language</i>).<div>
Perhaps too challenging for undergrads, but you can cut out the later part of it. <div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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