Hermeneutyka dyskursu w ujęciu Fritza Hermannsa
Discourse Hermeneutics in Fritz Hermanns’ Approach

Summary/Abstract: Linguistic meanings function in a specific social reality. According to Fritz Hermanns, knowledge about this reality is an integral part of semantic knowledge, which includes three aspects of human communicative actions: cognitions, emotions and intentions, understood as cognitive, affective and volitive dispositions of a collective. From this perspective, the discourse may be reduced to the entirety of knowledge actualized in communication practices belonging to a given discursive formation, while the task of discourse hermeneutics is to explain how mutual cognitions, emotions and intentions of various social groups manifest themselves in individual utterances, and vice versa: how collective thinking, feeling and wanting change existing linguistic conventions.

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