Hypothesis, reconstruction, analogy: On hermeneutics and the Interpretation of literature

The new literary semiotics

“…This can be argued on a solely Peircean basis, as J. K. Sheri¤ (1989) has done, or with reference to sociologically oriented theories of discourse, as Jørgen Dines Johansen (2002) has done. This can be argued on a solely Peircean basis, as J. K. Sheri¤ (1989) has done, or with reference to sociologically oriented theories of discourse, as Jørgen Dines Johansen (2002) has done.…”

“…Eco's (1979) theory of the text as a 'lazy machine' and of the reader as active producer of hypotheses and conjectures as well as Johansen's (1985Johansen's ( , 1989Johansen's ( , 2002 reflections on analogies between fiction and the lifeworld and interpretation as semiosis stem directly from the pragmatic theory of semiotics. Eco's (1979) theory of the text as a 'lazy machine' and of the reader as active producer of hypotheses and conjectures as well as Johansen's (1985Johansen's ( , 1989Johansen's ( , 2002 reflections on analogies between fiction and the lifeworld and interpretation as semiosis stem directly from the pragmatic theory of semiotics.…”

“…Within the new literary semiotics, signification in literature -and in language -is, in this sense, defined as heterosemiotic, since it depends on bodily mediated connections between linguistic expressions and experiences that are not linguistic (Veivo 2001: 82-114;Ruthrof 1997;Johansen 1988; also Eco's encyclopedia model 1977 and1984). To have a conception of the world represented, she or he has to act, to bring in bits of knowledge acquired elsewhere, either in real-world events or in cultural texts in the large sense of the word.…”

“…In the wider sense, the notion of interpretant defines interpretation as production of shared knowledge (Johansen 1993b;Colapietro 1989: 27-28, 37). In the Peircean framework, the sign mediates between the object and the interpretant.…”