Throughout these excerpts, Richards is explaining that there are many different meanings to a word and it depends on how you use it. The way you speak it and write it help give context clues to the word and what you want the word to mean. For example, if I were to tell my friend, "You're annoying," in a tone of voice that exemplifies anger then it shows I'm mad at her. I could use this after she ate my food in the refrigerator that i was saving for later and so on. If I use this saying after she says something funny, then it could be taken as sarcasm. Point blank Richards is saying there is not one definition to any saying or word. It is neither "bad or good." This shows how someone could take the same word and make a different meaning of it, which relates back to remixes and our genealogy papers. For instance, take the Disney movies that involve a princess, there is usually always an evil villain. In Cinderella, she has the evil stepmother, but just because the stepmother is evil in Cinderella does knot generally mean that the stepmother in every film or story will be evil or that every evil villain will be a stepmother. Richards also talks about, "Doctrine of Usage," he is trying to get the point across that a single word can get a point across just as much as a few sentences that mean the same thing. He wants us to understand that a bunch of different uses or the way we structure a film or writing can still get the same point or meaning across even though they are different.
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