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9780312221522

Interpretation As Pragmatics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312221522

  • ISBN10:

    0312221525

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 1999-07-30
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Does interpretation have anything to do with truth? This new theory of interpretation denies this, yet it argues that some interpretations are false and some are just. These theses are justified through a pragmatic model of interpretation as a language-game involving five participants: an author, a text, a reader, a language, and an encyclopedia. The model claims to provide an account of both literary interpretation and face-to-face dialogue. The central intuition is that authorial intention is radically separated from textual meaning and that consequently, the reader's role is one of necessary imposture.

Author Biography

Jean-Jacques Lecercle is Professor of English at the University of Paris at Nanterre.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Pragmatics of Interpretation
1(34)
`Let Him Have It, Chris!'
35(26)
Alter Ego
61(28)
The Reader, or: Imposture
89(29)
The Author, or: Intention
118(34)
Language, or: Interpellation
152(47)
Encyclopaedia, or: The Pragmatics of Literature
199(39)
Conclusion
232(6)
Notes 238(10)
Index 248

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