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  2. Aberrant decoding - Wikipedia

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    When the interpretation of the message is different from what was intended, this can be called aberrant decoding. [2] Aberrant decodings can occur in a more widespread range of situations, as wrong interpretation of a media product or text whose incoming message is not the one intended by the creator of the product or text.

  3. Explicature - Wikipedia

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    Relevance theory originally described loose talk, hyperbole, metaphor, and other figures of speech as conveying information solely via implicatures. The argument goes that a metaphorical utterance such as "Your room is a pigsty" would have the basic explicature "Your room is an enclosure where pigs are kept", but that cannot be an explicature ...

  4. Open text - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the open text comes from Umberto Eco 's collection of essays The Role of the Reader , [ 1 ] but it is also derivative of Roland Barthes 's distinction between 'readerly' ( lisible ) and 'writerly' (scriptible) texts as set out in his 1968 essay, " The ...

  5. Strict constructionism - Wikipedia

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    Constitutional scholar John Hart Ely believed that "strict constructionism" is not really a philosophy of law or a theory of interpretation, but a coded label for judicial decisions popular with a particular political party. [3] The term is frequently used even more loosely to describe any conservative judge or legal analyst. [4]

  6. Eisegesis - Wikipedia

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    It is commonly referred to as reading into the text. [1] It is often done to "prove" a pre-held point of concern, and to provide confirmation bias corresponding with the pre-held interpretation and any agendas supported by it. Eisegesis is best understood when contrasted with exegesis. Exegesis is drawing out a text's meaning in accordance with ...

  7. Plain text - Wikipedia

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    Text file with portion of The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon, displayed by the command cat in an xterm window. In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.).

  8. Translation - Wikipedia

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    The Scottish historian Alexander Tytler, in his Essay on the Principles of Translation (1790), emphasized that assiduous reading is a more comprehensive guide to a language than are dictionaries. The same point, but also including listening to the spoken language , had earlier, in 1783, been made by the Polish poet and grammarian Onufry ...

  9. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.