Discourse studies and hermeneutics  

Oleh:

Dijk, Teun A. Van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 5 (Oct. 2011), page 609-621.
Topik: cognitive psychology; discourse analysis; discourse comprehension; discourse studies; hermeneutics; interpretation; mental models
Fulltext: p. 609-621.pdf (349.79KB)

Isi artikel

Against the background of an academic development starting in literary studies, also involving ‘encounters’ with hermeneutics, this article argues that the contemporary cross-discipline of Discourse Studies, and hence Critical Discourse Studies, have gone beyond the impressionistic or erudite ‘interpretation’ of (literary) texts, as traditionally practiced in hermeneutics. It is summarized how psychology today accounts for many of the properties of the semantic and pragmatic comprehension of situated text and talk, for instance in terms of mental models. It thus makes explicit processes that are only vaguely characterized in terms of the metaphors of the interpretative ‘Arc’ as presented by Ricoeur. Yet we have only begun to make explicit the complex processes of discourse comprehension, especially also how structures of discourse are related to broader social, political, historical or cultural macro-contexts. Sophisticated discourse interpretations, also in hermeneutics, may thus provide insights that may be used in future developments of more explicit theories of discourse understanding.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali