INTERPRETING AND REINTERPRETING THE KNOWLEDGEOF THE WORLD IN DISCOURSE: A TYPOLOGY
The paper considers different cases of interpreting knowledge of the world in discourse with the aim of elaborating a workable typology. The necessity of differentiating between interpretation in encoding and interpretation in decoding information is discussed. The knowledge of the world is encoded in the language system through the process of naming the objects and phenomena of reality and through the process of text production. Interpretative decoding is part of understanding texts as well as part of discourse analysis aimed at the construal of intention underlying communication. The paper introduces the notion of multistage discursive interpretation of the knowledge of the world and the notion of reinterpretation of scientific knowledge of the language system in discourse.