0 relating to the meaning of texts and the ways in which they are understood --
To gain deeper understanding, a hermeneutic analysis and interpretation was used.
These two value structures, the mechanistic and the hermeneutic, are in tension.
As mentioned above, the dominant research methodology in the analysis of cross-cultural communication has been hermeneutic and qualitative.
Obviously a different hermeneutic system must be followed if one hopes to construe the passage intelligibly.
At any stage the hermeneutic house of cards could be blown away, or could be marvelled at as a thing of beauty and scholarly insight.
The second hermeneutic asks the same question about the divine author.
Informed by the hermeneutic methods of symbolic anthropology,4 historians here use anthropology to provide a cultural framework for understanding the past.
After several hundred pages of detailed discussion of hermeneutic techniques, symbolism, associations, and censorship, we find that psychoanalysis cannot be reduced to an interpretive practice.
