Rabinowitz and Fish both touched on the topics concerning the meanings behind language, the effect of social or political structures, and the audiences' reaction to an authors work in comparison to the author's intentions. We choose to continue our discussion with the entire class by presenting some ideas of each author, either in comparison to the other author, or alone, in order to establish a relationship between the two authors and clarify the concepts behind each author's ideas. Discussion Rabinowitz presents several critics' views on authorial readings. He also states that Wayne Booth suggests that the audience is morally obligated to read a text as the author intended it to be read. Fish Suggest that there are more than one literal meanings behind utterances.
Fish indicates that there are too many meanings for language.
Perception is based on the context, or environment, in which a text is read. Social structure is what constitutes the ranking of language interpretation. This idea lends itself to Fish's idea that a person's interpretation of an utterance depend on one's own personal experiences, which in turn, help dictate the context and circumstances of which an utterance is considered. Rabinowitz's actual audience theory also relies on this idea.