Interpreting Texts in Various Discourses

Grażyna Habrajska

doi:10.18778/1505-9057.54.11

Authors

Grażyna Habrajska Prof., University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Chair of Journalism and Social Communication https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4546-3557

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.54.11

Keywords:

discourse, interpretative field, text interpretation

Abstract

Within the communication-based approach, discourse is an area of meanings, which are formed through the interpretation of texts. Those meanings remain in our memory and are active as per communicational needs. The meanings forming a discourse constitute a particular basis for reference, i.e. its own logic. Therefore, one must learn how to participate in specific discourses. In considering the general purpose of communication and the special base of reference of meaning, we identified such discourses as: academic, official, journalistic, and artistic, which one could narrow down to more specific sub-discourses. The texts created within a discourse or sub-discourse may take both verbal and visual forms. Each discourse introduces different rules of interpretation, which a participant must learn. Discourses develop and exist within their own interpretative fields. Participation in a discourse both expands and improves its interpretative field. When a person does not participate in a discourse, they drop out of the discourse altogether. It is worth remembering that people possess various levels of the readiness to participate in specific discourses.

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Author Biography

Grażyna Habrajska, Prof., University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Chair of Journalism and Social Communication

Grażyna Habrajska – professor; for over a decade she has collaborated with A. Awdiejew on building the theory of the communication science, publishing highly appreciated works in the field. Her academic interests include: the theory and practice of communication (communication studies) in terms of verbal and visual communication, communication grammar, discourse analysis, persuasion and manipulation, axiology in communication, etc. Together with A. Awdiejew she published Wprowadzenie do gramatyki komunikacyjnej (vol. 1 – 2004, vol. 2 – 2006) and Komponowanie sensu w procesie odbioru komunikatów (2010). She is the author of the monographs: Komunikacyjna analiza i interpretacja tekstu (2004), Wybrane zagadnienia wprowadzające do nauki o komunikowaniu (2012), and over a hundred academic papers. She is the editor of various collective academic monographs; since 2007, she is the editor of the series of annual monographs entitled Rozmowy o komunikacji.

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