Practice question · True or false
For Fish, the properties a reader finds in a text are produced by the interpretive community's way of reading.
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- His argument is that reading strategies precede and constitute their objects.
- He demonstrated it by having a class read a list of names as a religious poem.
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True
Why
True. Fish's demonstration was to leave a list of linguists' names on the board and tell a class it was a seventeenth-century religious poem; they produced a fluent reading of it. The strategies came first and made the poem, which is the claim in its strongest form.
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