Publication details
Narrative meaning: Dilemmas of Interpration
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Interpretive human or social sciences are focused on meaning-making processes. Thus, interpretation can be understood as an explication of meaning-making. Following this assumption, six dilemmas concerning interpretation are identified. It is shown that narrative interpretation enables us to oscillate flexibly and effectively between 1) explicit data and exemplifying schemas, 2) the individual and culture, 3) the hermeneutics of suspicion and the hermeneutics of trust, 4) parts and the whole, 5) content and form, 6) structure (text) and function (context). Accordingly, interpretation can be understood as a solution of identified dilemmas. In this perspective, narrative research is defined as a reconstruction (explication) of narrative component meaning-making. |