Journal article
De-coding hermeneutics
- Abstract:
- A significant body of literature rests on the premise that the most propitious way of characterizing the way we interpret linguistic signs corresponds to the practices of encoding and decoding. A sender conceives a message, encodes it in linguistic signs, transmits the message (by voice, or in handwriting, or print, or digital media) and the recipient of the message decodes it. This model itself impedes progress in textual interpretation. An approach to hermeneutics that takes its cue from broader phenomena of perception, apprehension, and inference can provide a more illuminating theoretical discourse for evaluating contested interpretations, with the additional benefit that by changing the way that we view linguistic hermeneutics, we stand to integrate our endeavors more fully with the interpretation of art, music, ethics, and gestural action.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/18712207-12341394
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- Publisher:
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Journal:
- Horizons in Biblical Theology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 127-161
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-19
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1871-2207
- ISSN:
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0195-9085
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English
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1023139
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2019-06-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2019 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Brill at https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341394
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