Reception Theory, which stresses readers' role in the course of text reading, thinks that text is only a pile of meaningless and false codes before being accepted by readers.

接受理论强调读者在文本阅读过程中的作用，认为文本在未被读者接受之前只是一堆毫无意义的乱码。

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In exactly the same way, Americans and Britons used to pile as much money as they could into bricks and mortar, in the false belief that house prices could only rise.

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