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You Are Asked to Look Through an Opening into What

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You are asked to look through an opening into what appears to be an ordinary room that has a small boy standing in the left corner. As the boy walks from the left corner to the right corner, he appears to grow very large. You have just experienced the illusion created by

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Encoding/Decoding Model

A framework for understanding how media messages are produced, disseminated, and interpreted by audiences, emphasizing the active role of the recipient in decoding messages.

Polysemy

The characteristic of having multiple meanings or interpretations, typically referring to words, symbols, or texts.

Interpretive Community

A concept in literary theory referring to a group of individuals who share common interpretative strategies in reading texts, thus sharing a particular understanding or interpretation.

Stanley Fish

An American literary theorist and legal scholar known for his work on interpretive communities and the role of audience in the meaning of texts.