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Meaning, Expression, and the Interpretation of Literature ABSTRACT I argue that when we interpret a literary work, we engage with at least two different kinds of meaning, each requiring a distinct mode of interpretation. These kinds of meaning are literary varieties of what Paul Grice called nonnatural and natural meaning.
literature and its meaning. The aestheticians, writers, critics and scholars hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience; it has a pattern of verbal substructure much more carefully modified than that of everyday language; it is this language that expresses the meaning of literature.
In the tradition of natural language analysis, meaning is related to the use of language. Since Grice, meaning is linked to speakers’ attitudes and actions. Following Austin, Searle and Vanderveken, to mean is to use words with the intention of performing illocutionary acts. Such acts have felicity conditions instead of truth conditions.
Literature is the foundation of humanity's cultures, beliefs, and traditions. It serves as a reflection of reality, a product of art, and a window to an ideology. Everything that happens within a society can be written, recorded in, and learned from a piece of literature.
Is there a correct meaning, inherent in the text, available to a conscious reader? Or is the reader active? Does the reader, influenced by past literary and life experiences, infuse meaning into the text? Does the text play any role—active or constraining—in the construction of meaning?
13 Οκτ 2010 · What is commonly called meaning in literature comprises a number of separate phenomena. A simple distinction between linguistic meaning, applicatory meaning, and critical meaning is introduced with the help of a literary example, Edith Södergran’s poem “My Childhood Trees” (“Min barndoms träd”, 1922).
1 Δεκ 2010 · What is commonly called meaning in literature comprises a number of separate phenomena. A simple distinction between linguistic meaning, applicatory meaning, and critical meaning is introduced...
