Re: hi-speed talkers

Eugene Matusov (ematusov who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:36:25 -0700

Hi Jay--

Can you elaborate on this and bring examples, please
>In my review of _The World on Paper_, I noted the interesting
>case that in dialogue, one's interlocutor's interpretation of
>utterances (their own, and ours) are "privileged" in certain
>very practical senses (for the coordination of activity). But
>that it is an error of hermeneutical practice to carry such
>notions of authorial privilege or intentionality over to
>cases where there is no such dialogue to worry over (long dead
>authors of written texts). In such cases there may be others
>whose interpretations have practical privilege (others in our
>reading communities, for example), but all these privileges
>are only practical ones, not essential ones grounded in the
>nature of language, communication, or meaning, as is sometimes
>asserted. JAY.

Thanks,

Eugene Matusov

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Eugene Matusov
UC Santa Cruz