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On meaning and truth in communication

Text som tidigare publicerats på min filosofiblogg på engelska, se: https://recollectingphilosophy.wordpress.com/

Abstract:
1. Describing parts of communication; sender, recipient and message. Presenting a model with; sender-meaning,recipient-meaning and message-meaning, described as; intention, interpretation and ’literal meaning’.

2. Dismissing the idea of message-meaning as a ’literal meaning’. Describing the message-meaning as context-dependent.

3. Explaining why the message-meaning is independent from sender and recipient.

4. Leading us to conclusion that the message-meaning is to be seen as determined by a third part, ”a judge”.

5. Investigating attributes of this judge. Borrowing the concepts of ’doxa’ and ’habitus’ from Pierre Bourdieu.

6. Dismissing the idea of the sender-meaning as an intention and dismissing the idea of the recipient-meaning as an interpretation. Follow up and further develop the sender-meaning and recipient-meaning. Putting this in context with the newly developed judge-meaning.

7. Illuminate similarities and differences between the meanings.

8. Discussing the significance, possibility and privileges of each of the participants.

Fulltext:

Jämförelse mellan Lu Xuns ”Medicine” (1918) och Lao Shes ”An Old and Established Name” (1936)

Examinationsuppgift i kursen, ”Kinesisk litteraturhistoria (avancerad nivå), 7,5hp”

Frågeställning:
Vad finns det för likheter och skillnader mellan Lu Xuns ”Medicine” (1918) och Lao Shes ”An Old and Established Name” (1936) i förhållande till den traditionella kinesiska kulturen?