ISSN 2039-2117 (online) ISSN 2039-9340 (print) Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol 9 No 2 March 2018 73 Research Article © 2018 Ermir Xhindi and Erjona Xhindi. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). The Possible Reader - How Can He Be ‘Possible’? Dr. Ermir Xhindi Department of Albanian Language and Literature University of Vlora ‘Ismail Qemali’, Vlorë, Abania Erjona Xhindi Teacher of English Non - Public School ‘Aulona’, Vlorë, Albania Doi: 10.2478/mjss-2018-0027 Abstract How can it be possible that the value of a critical instrument as a theoretical category is proved as valuable in practice? In reading cases, especially during the interpretation of fictional texts, this would be an attractive ideal, at least as a methodological premise. In this work, we represent some theses on the equivalence of the Possible Reader as a theoretical instrument, with the Empirical (real) Reader of fictional texts. We are focused on presenting a hybrid Eco (Umberto) - Fish (Stanley) Model (EFM), the relevant structure and its function, its validity in implementation. The Structuralist Model of Eco (Umberto) is seen in function of text constructing, while the Phenomenological Model of Fish (Stanley) is seen as an alternative to meaning issues, as a complementary entity with Eco’s model. What can be said, for now, is that not only in the ethical level, but also with concrete results, this method justifies itself. The meaning produced by the Possible Reader as a theoretical category appears almost in the same parameters with the meaning produced by a community of empirical readers. We should specify, at the end, that the model is in its experimental phase, as it will need more exhaustive theorizing in the future. Keywords: Possible reader, meaning matrix, reader response, ethic of method, Albanian literature Introduction 1. In one of our recent works we came upon an unexpected conclusion that required a further explanation. After elaborating data from a survey on the construction of meaning by a number of students, as empirical readers, on a random chosen novel (Kadare, 2008) and comparing them with the results on the construction of meaning by a Possible Reader (Eco, 2006) as a theoretical category on a few texts by Kongoli, F., (Xhindi, 2010), an eminent author in today’s Albanian literature, we conclude that the meaning produced by the students on Kadare’s work was essentially the same as that produced by the Possible Reader as a theoretical category on the texts of Kongoli “the construction of the same initial state of religion, existence in a world outside of any system of values, guided by nothing but the basic needs of existence” (Xhindi, 2015, p.136). The survey, as synthetic formula derived from a theoretic version (Eco, 2006, p.72), contained a number of sections where data were collected on a) Reader competence; b) Perceived referential network; c) Isotopies at the discourse level; d) Isotopies at the narrative level; e) The actantial and ideological structure. The model we used to collect data from the students (Xhindi, 2015) practically interpreted, this time, a theoretically previously used instrument. Precisely, trying to give an answer to the question