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Interpreting Interpretation

1997
Abstract There is a simple life cycle for metaphors: they are born of fresh insight about an unnoticed similarity, wither with overuse, and die by becoming so familiar that they are treated as established senses of words. Intellectual fashions are like metaphors in this respect.
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Interpreting "Interpreting the Variorum"

Critical Inquiry, 1976
Together Professor Bush and Mr. Mailloux present a problem in interpretation not unlike those that were the occasion of the paper they criticize: Professor Bush takes the first section of that paper more seriously (or at least with a different kind of seriousness) than I do, and Mr. Mailloux complains that I do not take it seriously enough.
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Interpreters and Interpreter Education

2012
Abstract The professionalization of sign language interpreting and interpreters is still evolving, although the actual work of the interpreter has been occurring for generations. This chapter is about the profession of American Sign Language/English interpreting in the United States and the education required to succeed in that ...
Elizabeth A. Winston, Christine Monikowski   +1 more
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Interpreting ›Unreliable Interpreting‹

Scientia Poetica, 2017
AbstractTo enable a clear and detailed description of narrative features, narratological concepts should be well-defined and unambiguous. My paper aims to contribute to this by analyzing, reworking, and relabeling two models of ›unreliable interpreting‹.
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Minangkabau interpretations interpreted

Reviews in Anthropology, 1985
Errington, Frederick K. Manners and Meaning in West Sumatra: The Social Context of Consciousness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. xiv + 175 pp. including illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $20.00 cloth.
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Abduction, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Interpretations

Human Arenas, 2018
This paper is concerned with two interrelated ideas: the first one is that the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was actively engaged with questions of hermeneutics proper and modified his theory of inquiry so as to be able to accommodate objects of investigation that are generally treated within a hermeneutical framework.
Sebastian Feil, Alin Olteanu
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On interpreting ‘The Indian Interpreter’

Language in Society, 1980
ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the proposition that certain multilingual situations favor certain learning strategies on the part of speakers. The paper takes this proposition as the best approach to explaining the development of pidgin grammars, and exemplifies the general approach by studying the seventeenth-century Delaware-based Traders’ Jargon in ...
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An Interpretation of An Interpretation of Religion

1991
It is a great honour to be chosen to deliver the Gifford Lectures, which are arguably the most prestigious lectureship on religion in the English-speaking world. One immediately thinks of past publications of lectures that have now achieved classic status — William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience and Reinhold Niebuhr’s Nature and Destiny of ...
Chester Gillis, John Hick, Carl W. Ernst
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Interpretations of Interpretations [PDF]

Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, 1981
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Interpretations Of, And Interpretations In, Philosophy

2011
The hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer is often charged, as far as its consequences and implications for a theory of interpretation in the narrower sense are concerned, with a relapse into the morass of an unchecked subjectivism. The author suggests in this paper that this happy compromise between the philosophical elucidation of an underlying ...
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