by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Language Sources
Language itself is a source of meaning Words often mean more than they mean. Sometimes the surplus or transcendent meaning is symbolic as in myth, or rhetorical as in political text, or motivational as in graduation speeches, or inspirational as in prayers. And...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistic Differentiations
Linguistic differentiations provide a source of semantic variations that constitute a web of related phenomena and meanings. In order to find the source of linguistic differentiations we ask: What words or notions are closely related to the phenomenon that we study?...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistical Phenomenology
Linguistical phenomenology Basic themes of linguistical phenomenology are “textual autonomy,” “signification,” “intertextuality,” “deconstruction,” “discourse,” and “space of the text.” Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer have been highly concerned with the role and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistic Reflection
Linguistic Reflection It is sometimes surprising how much language can teach us if we allow ourselves to be attentive to even the most common of expressions associated with the phenomenon we wish to pursue. The reason is that sayings, idiomatic phrases, proverbs, and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Literary And Aesthetic Sources
Literature, poetry, and art are sources of phenomenological insights The human scientist likes to make use of the works of poets, authors, artists, cinematographers–because it is in this material that the human being can be found as situated person, and it is in this...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Macro Thematic Reflection
Macro-thematic Reflection In the wholistic reading approach we attend to the text as a whole. Expressing the fundamental or overall meaning of a text is an interpretive act. Different readers may discern different thematic meanings. And no one interpretation is ever...
