The short answer is that, although it may share some of the motivations behind expressivist (and projectivist) views, in content it is quite different.

In conclusion, learners conveyed subjectivity by means of the diegetic present and the foregrounded imperfect but did so less frequently and in shorter stretches of text than native speakers in the expression of the native locutor's subjective involvement with his own discourse.

He made a telephone call to his bosom buddy, drinking companion and confidant, CBS Sports Director Bill MacPhail.

Throughout the Isle, abandoned tholtans, devoid of their thatched roofs and whitewash, are silent reminders of the people who once were sheltered near the warmth of their hearths and sang in their own Celtic tongue.