Reference:
Review Excerpts 'In the description I propose, these [basic] components [of interpretation] are
text, interpreter, the audience to whom interpretation is directed, meaning, and
the resources that help achieve understanding' (161).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | audience | description |
interpretation |
meaning |
text |
understanding |
'The term text ...encompasses the continuous substance of all human
signifying activities and allows us to point to something very general, namely, to
whatever seems to invite interpretation or to whatever the interpreter sets up as
an object for interpreting' (162).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | interpretation |
substance |
term |
text |
'In the deconstructive critic Paul de Man's terms, a text's "grammar" -- the
syntactic structures of its language -- contradicts its "rhetoric", its figurality and the
metaphoricity it aims to project' (168).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | grammar | language |
rhetoric |
'Interpreters do not freely elicit meanings from texts; rather, they make
interpretation the means of synthesizing and carrying on a whole culture'
(170).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | culture | interpretation |
'Interpretation ...presupposes that a text does not speak its meaning for
itself. It holds itself back from us in some ways' (170).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | interpretation |
meaning |
text |
'The idea that a text must have a single clear meaning and that interpretation
should aim to state it is highly questionable, but it has deep roots in our culture'
(175).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | culture | idea |
interpretation |
meaning |
state |
text |
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