Vocabulary for Interpretation 2

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Class: 
Biblical Hermeneutics
Lecture label: 
NT510-8

Vocabulary for Interpretation

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The Goal of Interpretation

Part 4

II. A Vocabulary for Interpretation (part 2)

A. Meaning

B. Implications

LESSON BEGINS HERE

C. Significance
How a reader responds to the meaning of a text, an act of the will.

D. Subject matter
The content (or "stuff") talked about in a text.

E. Understanding
The correct mental grasp of the author's meaning.

F. Interpretation
The verbal or written expression of a reader's understanding of the author's meaning.

G. Mental acts
The experiences the author went through when writing the text.(C.S. Lewis, "Fernseed and Elephants")

H. Norms of language
The range of meanings allowed by the words of a text.

I. Norms of utterance
The specific meaning that the author has given to a word, phrase, sentence and the like in a text.

J. Literary genre
The literary form used by the author and the rules governing that form.

K. Context
The willed meaning that an author gives to the literary materials surrounding the text.

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