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Catttt Posted 5 years ago
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Aesthetic elements in such blatantly commercial enterprises as advertising

1. Are "TV and film" in the following context meant to be "the decentered effects of mass cultural products" or "mass cultural products"?


2. Does "and the aesthetic elements in such blatantly commercial enterprises as advertising" imply


a) TV and films are blatantly commercial enterprises and advertising is an aesthetic element in them


or


b) advertising is a blatantly commercial enterprise that contains aesthetic elements?



Context:

With influences stemming from the linguistic turn in theorizing and methods of analysis borrowed from the humanities, CS theorists have looked for multiple levels of meaning and interpretation in cultural artifacts and their reception/interpretation. They have concentrated attention on what are conceived as the decentered effects of mass cultural products such as TV and film, and the aesthetic elements in such blatantly commercial enterprises as advertising.

  

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catttt 1. Are "TV and film" in the following context meant to be "the decentered effects of mass cultural products" or "mass cultural products"? Twins sometimes develop a secret language in infancy that only the two of them know.

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  • catttt 1.
  • Are "TV and film" in the following context meant to be "the decentered effects of mass cultural products" or "mass cultural products"?
  • Twins sometimes develop a secret language in infancy that only the two of them know.
  • The phenomenon is called cryptophasia.
  • They retain their private language into adulthood.
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catttt1. Are "TV and film" in the following context meant to be "the decentered effects of mass cultural products" or "mass cultural products"?

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