According to Stuart Hall (1980), “in speaking of dominant meanings, then, we are not talking about one-sided process which governs how all events will be signified. It consists of the ‘work’ required to enforce, win plausibility for and commands as legitimate a decoding of the event within the limit of dominant definitions in which it has been connotatively signified.”
Choose the right answer that best explains his argument above.

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According to Stuart Hall (1980), “in speaking of dominant meanings, then, we are not talking about one-sided process which governs how all events will be signified. It consists of the ‘work’ required to enforce, win plausibility for and commands as legitimate a decoding of the event within the limit of dominant definitions in which it has been connotatively signified.”  
 Choose the right answer that best explains his argument above.

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The dominant meanings are not irresistibly imposed, but they are only preferred.

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Audiences can read the dominant meanings that the producers have fixed.

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Audiences can read whatever they like into the message.

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