Chinese Language Teaching Hermeneutics

Author: Cao Minghai
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book, "Interpretive Hermeneutics of Language Teaching," primarily focuses on the understanding and interpretation of teaching texts, especially literary texts. Therefore, it mainly draws upon and applies the theoretical methods of literary hermeneutics. Contemporary literary hermeneutics, which has a significant influence today, has a very close relationship with the long-standing philosophical hermeneutics of the West. In recent years, hermeneutics has undergone the development process represented by "epistemological hermeneutics" by Schleiermacher, "methodological hermeneutics" by Dilthey, and "ontological hermeneutics" by Heidegger and Gadamer. This means that hermeneutics has moved from an epistemological and methodological level to an ontological one. Due to this philosophical level leap, hermeneutics has expanded into its various branches and subfields, also giving rise to the interdisciplinary and marginal field of literary hermeneutics. The interpretive hermeneutics of language teaching that we are intensively researching is an exploration of the principles of interpreting language teaching texts using the theoretical methods of literary hermeneutics. It views the understanding of the subject as an aesthetic generative process of textual meaning and regards the reader's interpretation as an activity of seeking and self-understanding. This means it both constructs the meaning of the text and constructs the self's world.