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Hermeneutic Analysis — Interpretive Understanding of Texts
Hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative interpretive method for uncovering the meaning of texts, documents, spoken discourse, or human actions. Rooted in 19th-century biblical and legal scholarship and systematised by Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, it operates through the hermeneutic circle: the meaning of a part is understood through the whole, and the meaning of the whole is revised as parts are interpreted. The goal is not to measure or code, but to achieve a deepening, dialogic understanding of the object of interpretation.
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Sources
- Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960 as Wahrheit und Methode). ISBN: 978-0826400185
- Ricoeur, P. (1981). Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (J. B. Thompson, Ed. & Trans.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521280167
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