Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Semester of Degree Completion
2004
Thesis Director
Shane Miller
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the use of subversion to create multiple meanings in rhetorical texts. Subversion, an element focused on by Fiske (1986, 1987) and McKerrow (1988) in their early contributions to the rhetorical study of multiple meaning texts, has been an ongoing lacunae in the study of polysemic texts. I wish to provide a correction to this problem by offering the concept of subsemy. By examining the role of strategic ambiguity and irony in the functioning of subversion, the concept of subsemy provides a missing picture of how popular cultural texts, film in particular, can function subversively.
Recommended Citation
Click, Kane Madison, "Subsemy: Using Subversion to Create Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Texts" (2004). Masters Theses. 1385.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1385
