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Volume 10, Issue 41 (12-2013)
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One of the important issues in literacy criticism and hermeneutics is the intention of reading the text. The question is “Which one of these four elements, author, interpreter, text and context has the main role in the process of reading the text?” Hirsch, following romantic philosophers of hermeneutics, argues for Intentionalism, and believes that the aim of reading a text is to understand the intention of the author. Interpreter or reader is going to reproduce the determined meaning which the writer has had in mind. However many literacy critics and philosophers of hermeneutics such as Barthes, Gadamer and Derrida, in spite of their opposing views, disagree with this theory; then they may be categorized in a class known as the “doctrine of semantic autonomy of text”. According to this doctrine, the text does not contain a pre-determined meaning, which can be discovered by the reader or interpreter. Understanding is a productive process rather than a reproductive one, and the aim of reading a text is not listening to the writer’s voice but to the text’s assertion. This article attempts to put forward the arguments of advocators of the “doctrine of semantic autonomy of text”, as well as Hirsch’s criticism on these arguments.
Hassan Rahmani, Qasem Mokhtari, Mohammad Jorfi, Ebrahim Anari Bozchalooi, Mahmoud Shahbazi,
Volume 13, Issue 50 (5-2020)
Abstract
Determination is an inner drive that motivates one to do something. In linguistics, this concept refers to the fulfillment of the prolocutor will when delivering the speech. In other words, the speech is delivered consciously and it is not out of sleepiness, drunkenness, insanity and alike. It may appear that rhetoricians’ use of rhetorical devices is unintentional. The present study seeks to explore the concept of determination in rhetorical devices, by employing a pragmatic approach and descriptive-analytic methodology. Therefore, the speech of well-known rhetoricians was studied and rhetorical devices were analyzed in terms of determination and will. The analysis included the production and reception stage. Upon analysis of six rhetorical devices, it became evident that determination played a role in the use of these devices to the extent that overlooking determination might hinder our understanding of these devices. In conclusion, the use of rhetorical devices in rhetoricians’ speech is by no mean unintentional and the concept of “intent” in their speech is not equal to determination, rather a kind of pretension.
