>I had a similar problem with my Masters dissertation and the word >"interpellated": no one knew what it meant, and oddly enough, my spell >chekker didn't query it except when I spelt it wrong due to sloppy typing >(as this post will probably demonstrate!!) >Most people were able to dissern what the word meant by the context of >its use (likewise in my own experience with "diegetic"). For the record, >I use interpellate to mean what the audience receives as text which is >not necessarily what the text-manufacturer intented (rhetorical >discourse). All of this is working from ideas from Eagleton's *Ideology >- an introduction*. > >Mikel ================================ So why isn't "interpolate" the word to use? --Richard J. Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]