id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5234 Stanley Fish - Wikipedia .html text/html 3525 429 64 From 1999 to 2004, he was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 until 2002.[7] He also held joint appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice, and was the chairman of the Religious Studies Committee.[10] In Fish's source the term is explained as "the idea that it is possible to characterize a linguistic system that every speaker shares."[16] In the context of literary criticism, he uses this concept to argue that a reader's approach to a text is not completely subjective, and that an internalized understanding of language shared by the native speakers of that given language makes possible the creation of normative boundaries for one's experience with language.[citation needed] ^ New York Times: Stanley Fish Archived November 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, nytimes.com; accessed January 11, 2018. Stanley Fish article published in the Johns Hopkins University Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5234.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5234.txt