Can We Exclude an Interpretation of a Literary Work on the Basis of the Rules of the Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10612959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P D Juhl |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1044 |
| Publication date | 1977-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2906893 |
| OpenAlex | W2325316579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
One is inclined to suppose that if the syntactic or semantic rules of a language do not allow a certain reading of some sentence in that language, then the sentence cannot have that meaning, regardless of the context in which it occurs or the intention of the speaker. (I am ignoring here symbolic or figurative interpretations, irony, parody, and cases of saying something by implication.') Thus one is inclined to suppose, for example, that the first sentence of Joyce's The Boarding House, Mrs. Mooney was a butcher's daughter could not properly be construed as 'Mrs. Mooney butchered her daughter.' In the following, I shall offer a few arguments in support of the claim that in excluding an interpretation ostensibly on the basis of the rules of the language, we are implicitly appealing to the author's likely intention, given his knowledge of the rules of the language
Epistemology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
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| Citation span | 1983 - 1983 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |