Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2023

 

The Difficult Measurement of Interpretation and the Limitations of Language

(Abstract)

 

Liu Yang

 

How to measure excessive/moderate interpretation remains to be a theoretical problem centering on the interpretative objectivity in hermeneutics. Based on the potential theory, we can only reveal the difficulty of interpretation measurement by understanding it as the limitations of language: moderate interpretation means to restore the linguistic limitations of interpretive objects and demonstrate the difficulties in writing; Excessive interpretation caters to the linguistic inertia of interpretive objects. Transformation of programs such as “literature in theory” lends support to practice such form of moderate theoretical interpretations.