Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
It (d) formulated (in the fashion of pointing to) the immediate relationship between listener (staff or myself) and teller (resident) by re-location the conversation in the context of the persisting role relationships between the parties---e.g. "For you to ask me that, would be asking me to snitch." This, saying "you know I won't snitch," operated as a renunciation or a reminder of the relationships involved and the appropriate relations between members of these categories...