Which of the following are codes of reception in communication?
The codes of reception in communication are the dominant (2), negotiated (3) and oppositional (4) readings, Stuart Hall's ways an audience decodes a message.
The dominant (2) reading accepts the message in the sense the sender intended.
The negotiated (3) reading partly accepts and partly adjusts that meaning to fit the receiver's own position.
The oppositional (4) reading rejects the intended meaning and reads against it, while bystander (1) and channel (5) are not among Hall's decoding positions.
These positions show that audiences actively interpret rather than merely absorb.
Meaning is thus completed at the moment of reception.
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