ABSTRACT
Pandora and Occam are invoked to act as metaphoric cornerstones in an ar gument about language as discourse. If this strategy signals a structural homo geneity it needs to be emphasized that throughout this study there will be a bias toward the heterogeneity of discursive operations and their semantic-semi otic background. In this sense Pandora stands for culturally and socially saturated speech, the language of everyday life, the discourse of humor as well as the paroles of the political text. “Pandoric” reading, likewise, characterizes the kind of reading which activates rich rather than minimal meanings, the richest of which I shall argue is a certain kind of literary reading.
