This '
subworld' is continuously changing by the addition, but also exclusion, of new elements, following processes that Latour described with relevance.
Werth (1997) and Gavins (2007) state that metaphor forms a type of epistemic
subworld in the text world.
Workplace bonds constitute "an expressive
subworld that runs parallel to the instrumentalities of the job for which one is paid, often using and playing off of those instrumentalities to elaborate itself, but not restricted to job concerns for its further development." (58) As such, work relationships may be much more defined by workplace dynamics than the dynamics of the home.
Moreover, this information often does not form a full-fledged frame or a "
subworld" with its own system of "subframes," which would enable recuperation of inconsistencies.
Basically SP, built on the complexity research orientation, consists of an exploration and learning cycle that in an ongoing, self-organizing process (by drawing, among other things, on a tool box of hard and soft OR techniques) establishes a so-called '
subworld' around the planning problem.
The proprietor of a baseball
subworld is a scruffy God living on sandwiches, pizza, and beer.
As he convincingly puts it, "formal gender inequality in the West could not be sustained on a large scale in the late 20th century except by an institutional
subworld organized around religious authority."
Furthermore, various types of "
subworld" can exist within the text world, including those initiated by the characters.
Moreover, Eco's second and third possible worlds of the fabula, the subwodds imagined by the characters and by the Model Reader or audience are operating even by the end of Scene One: the detectives and the audience are imagining
subworlds of possible gang or mad scientist activity, the audience may even be imaging other possible
subworlds like alien intruders (a
subworld that is indeed proposed in Scene Ten), and these subwodds should begin to give way to narrative fact once the fabula moves farther along its trajectory.