Published: 2021-06-18

Discourse Hermeneutics in Fritz Hermanns’ Approach

Urszula Topczewska Logo ORCID

Abstract

Linguistic meanings function in a specific social reality. According to F. Hermanns, knowledge about this reality is an integral part of semantic knowledge, which includes three aspects of human communicative actions: cognitions, emotions and intentions, understood as cognitive, affective and volitive dispositions of a collective. From this perspective, the discourse may be reduced to the entirety of knowledge actualized in communication practices belonging to a given discursive formation, while the task of discourse hermeneutics is to explain how mutual cognitions, emotions and intentions of various social groups manifest themselves in individual utterances, and vice versa: how collective thinking, feeling and wanting change existing linguistic conventions.

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Topczewska, U. (2021). Discourse Hermeneutics in Fritz Hermanns’ Approach. Forum Lingwistyczne, 8(8), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2021.08.12

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No. 8 (2021)
Published: 2021-06-18


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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