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Created: March 1, 2003
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Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, February 2003.
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Illocutionary Discourse

• March 1, 2003: Mr. Rogers is gone. I felt such sadness to hear that. When I suffered a C2 fracture in the mid 90s, and lay dispiritedly abed in a halo hardly akin to the kind that angels sport, Mr. Rogers greeted me each day, and made me feel welcome. I was in my 60s. Go figure. But there I was, with all the little kids, waiting for Mr. Rogers to assure me that I was OK. Thanks, Mr. Rogers. I, too, figure you've earned your wings.

  My Sanctuary, in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood To the Editor: Re "Mister Rogers, TV's Friend for Children, Is Dead at 74" (front page, Feb. 28). Letter by Karen Shaw. Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 28, 2003. Backup.

  It might be tempting to explain Mr. Rogers in terms of Gordon Fellman's mutuality paradigm.

  It is also possible to explain Mr. Rogers in terms of illocutionary discourse.