If,as Stanley Fish Argues,an Individual Reader Interprets a Text and Thereby

question 81

Multiple Choice

If,as Stanley Fish argues,an individual reader interprets a text and thereby gives it meaning,then there are an infinite number of potential meanings for any given text.Why,then,do so many people interpret things in the same ways?

• A) People tend to look to a small number of critics to explain any particular piece of culture.
• B) People have very little imagination and do not like to focus too much on any given text.
• C) People who consume the same texts come from similar backgrounds and have similar interpretive frameworks.
• D) People passively absorb meanings from the media that lead them to see the world in the same ways.

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