models for the formal identification of features of the text in terms of their effect upon the reader and for the structure of the hermeneutical process. The fact that this theory deals with the communication process as a whole is both its strength, as it has the potential to elucidate the meaning-effect as a whole, and its weakness, especially when applied to texts. The difficulty is that the verification of such models necessarily involves the effect of the communication act upon the addressee,
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