... or values; these different readings can be identified through Stuart Hall's Reception Theory. According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading". These readings identify the way in which different audiences can or cannot ... as part of a lifestyle choice and invest themselves into the brand's ideology because they identify with the encoded messages that are communicated by its creators. It is cle...

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