vol. 35, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: "A CHANGE OF MEANING, NOT A CHANGE OF MIND: THE CLARIFICATION OF A SUSPECTED DEFECTION IN THE HERMENEUTICAL THEORY OF E. D. HIRSCH, JR." by DALE LESCHERT* JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 183-187

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"A CHANGE OF MEANING, NOT A CHANGE OF MIND:
THE CLARIFICATION OF A SUSPECTED DEFECTION
IN THE HERMENEUTICAL THEORY OF E. D. HIRSCH, JR."
by DALE LESCHERT*
JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 183-187

Excerpt:
Two men of varied backgrounds—E. D. Hirsch, Jr., and Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.—have stood out in recent years as champions of the hermeneutical belief that "a text means what its author meant."1
An author's most
effective defense against the rising tide of subjective interpretation has
often proven to be the clear distinction between "meaning" and "significance" that Hirsch enunciated in his first major work:
Meaning is that which is represented by a text; it is what the author meant
by his use of a particular sign sequence; it is what the signs represent.
Significance, on the other hand, names a relationship between that meaning
and a person, or a conception, or a situation, or indeed anything imaginable.2
--from page 1 of the article