In other words, different peop

In other words, different people ‘read’ the same text in
different ways depending upon the aspects of identity that are of most
importance to them. In Barker’s study, he uses qualitative research to examine
the role of television soap opera as a resource employed by British Asian and
Afro-Caribbean teenagers [to show] how a specific group of persons deploy
television as a resource for the construction of cultural identities [through]
the formative nature of language as a resource in lending shape to ourselves
and our world out of the contingent and disorderly flow of everyday talk and
practice. (Barker 1999: 119)