by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Sayings
Sayings, proverbs, expressions, and idiomatic phrases can be sources of phenomenological meaning. Sayings and idiomatic phrases can be helpful sources for phenomenological meaning. They may reveal something about the experience they are used to describe. For example,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Seeking
Seeking: A phenomenologist is a seeker of meaning. The phenomenologist seeks to be a writer, and as writer he or she seeks to enter the space of the text where one tries to gain a view of or to touch the subject one is trying to describe. Seeking to be a writer. But...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Social Scientific Sources
All the social sciences find their starting points in the lifeworld. All social science theories originally found their impetus in the world of everyday lived experience. All social science is built on a substrate of phenomenological meanings. For this reason the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Sources Of Meaning
The phenomenologist searches a variety of sources of meaning. Phenomenological inquiry draws on many types and sources of meaning. These sources lie not only within the disciplinary boundaries of the social sciences but also in other human domains such as the arts,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Spatial Reflection
Spatial Reflection Lived space (spatiality) is felt space. Lived space is a category for inquiring into the ways we experience spatial dimensions of our day-to-day existence. When we think of space we usually first speak of mathematical space, or the length, height...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Invocative Turn
The Invocative Turn Intensification: The intensification of a text’s language implies that its meaning becomes more universal, more general. The meaning of words and phrases is universalized. When concrete things are named in text in which words are intensified, a...
