Interpretive Authority Research Articles

‘De Auteur is dood’, zeggen de Auteurs

The French literary critic Roland Barthes made a notorious attempt in the 1960s to declare the author of literary texts dead. His essay became a true classic in literary and cultural studies. This article places ‘The Death of the Author’ (1967) in its intellectual and historical context. First, I will look at the extent to which the essay relates to the thematic issue on minimalism of the American periodical in which it first appeared. Secondly, I will discuss a few seminal ideas of the essay, including a largely overlooked paradox in its argumentation: its strong emphasis on quotations from literary authors to substantiate the claim that the literary author must no longer be used as an argument of authority in text interpretation. I will connect Barthes’s plea for the birth of the reader to his polemic in the 1960s with the literary scholar Raymond Picard about the role of the reader in literary criticism. Lastly, I will relate Barthes’s plea for the reader to his reception of antiquity, more specifically his life-long fascination with Greek tragedy and Nietzsche as sources of inspiration to reflect upon the mechanisms of literary language. I will conclude by commenting upon the theoretical use and the self-conscious temporality of Barthes’s essay.

Epistemologi Perkembangan Tafsir Era Sahabat

The development of interpretations needs to be observed as a scientific treasure, including the development of the interpretations of the Companions period which became the embryos of the development of the interpretations of the Koran after the time of the Prophet. Therefore, it is important to know how the development of interpretation at the time of the Companions. This paper uses a descriptive analysis method with a qualitative approach and applies library research types. The result is that the exegesis of the Companions period does not yet have special works like those of the later era, so the exegesis is still scattered randomly like hadith. Interpretations of friends also experience differences, but tend to be more diverse. There are three sources used by friends: the Koran, Hadith, and Ijtihad. The ijtihad techniques of the companions varied according to their scientific capacity. In addition, the interpretation of the Companions is considered to be the authoritative interpretation after the Qur'an and Hadith, because the Companions really understand the history of the revelation of the verses. The quality of the history of the interpretation of the Companions also needs to be analyzed for its status, but there are also many credible paths of transmission.

Deep learning based high similarity automatic retrieval algorithm for vocabulary interpretation of workers of Food Sector in china

In order to build a high similarity English vocabulary interpretation domain knowledge base and ensure the automatic retrieval effect of high similarity English vocabulary interpretation, this paper standardizes the automatic retrieval specification of authoritative interpretation of high similarity English vocabulary knowledge, and takes high similarity English vocabulary as the source corpus of the knowledge base. On the basis of the existing work, this paper attempts to propose an automatic retrieval algorithm of high similarity English word interpretation based on deep learning. The goal is to diversify the sources of high similarity English word knowledge and achieve the accuracy of automatic retrieval of word interpretation while ensuring a certain knowledge coverage. A suitable domain knowledge base of machine-readable dictionary is constructed through a new method It can not only provide accurate knowledge information for high similarity English vocabulary, but also provide retrieval verification for user needs analysis and high similarity English vocabulary indexing of snippet. The experimental results show that the algorithm based on deep learning is effective and can fully meet the research requirements.

Perception of climate change in Bangladesh: local beliefs, practices and responses

There is a clear need for an understanding of the perceptions of climate change among those whose lives are most affected to inform national discourse and in particular, development and implementation of adaptation strategies. The paper is the outcome of a qualitative study among the local people of Charhajari, Anuliya and Nitpur unions of Bangladesh. The key informant technique, along with in-depth interview, had been exploited for gaining holistic perceptions on climatic scenario in the localities, while focus group discussion and case study were used for mapping out collective social consensus on the subject. The study has elucidated the threats climate change poses to established long-term beliefs, practices and perceptions by instigating erratic changes in weather patterns, shifting seasons, and questioning efficacy and authority of traditional interpretation of local weather. Local inhabitants have their own way of internalization and symbolic interpretation of climate induced debacles. Of the indicators demonstrating the impacts of climate change on local communities, seasonal diversity decline is central for affecting every aspects of socio-economic life including rituals and festivals. Apart from these, inhabitants have explored a number of independent and dependent climatic hazards they are under exposed. The paper concludes that experience of climate change impacts is for most cases ecosystem based but perception appears to be culturally specific.

Resistance and Revolution: Authority and the Analytic Situation During COVID-19

The author discusses a process of recommending returning to in-person analysis during the period from April to October 2021, after working by phone since March 2020. Clinical excerpts from several analytic cases are presented and discussed in terms suggested by that material and other sources. Previous work on interpretive authority and on the interpretation of verbal and nonverbal material, still generally relevant to the analytic situation, is discussed as a background for integrating more specific ideas particularly relevant to this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, including preliminary concepts of revolution and resistance, danger and opportunity, and convenience and necessity.

DUALIST POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM A Reply to Michelman

DUALIST POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM A Reply to Michelman

Law’s Determinability: Indeterminacy, Interpretative Authority, and the International Legal System

Law’s Determinability: Indeterminacy, Interpretative Authority, and the International Legal System

First and Second Conversations: Remote Learning and Interpretive Boundaries

AbstractThis article examines the nature of student‐to‐student text discussion in a dialogically organized remote classroom. Conducted as teacher research, I investigated student talk in a PreK‐1st grade biblical literature class. In the fall of 2020, I taught a biblical literature class to a fully remote PreK‐1st grade cohort in a Jewish independent school on the East Coast. Four undergraduate research assistants from the SCRoLL education lab helped with ongoing data analysis. Through self‐study of my teaching and classroom, I discovered the ways that the remote setting shaped intensive text discussion, facilitating students' comfort stepping into their own interpretive authority and moving past the classroom fixture of teacher as interpretive authority. In the remote classroom, the students comfortably moved between the first conversation, the meaning of the text, and the second conversation, competing conventions for determining the meaning of the text. I conclude with suggestions for how teachers interested in dialogically organized classrooms can carry the assets of the remote classroom forward.

Exercising the Authority of Unified Interpretation of the Law and Its Separation: Examining from the Perspectives of Grand Chamber of Supreme Administrative Court and Grand Justices of Judicial Yuan

Exercising the Authority of Unified Interpretation of the Law and Its Separation: Examining from the Perspectives of Grand Chamber of Supreme Administrative Court and Grand Justices of Judicial Yuan

Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective

Walter Houston’s article on the death of Nadab and Abihu is one of the few attempts to bring a social science model of honor and shame to bear on the Pentateuch. This article will argue that he did not go far enough in tracing how honor and shame bring coherence, not just to the Nadab and Abihu incident but also to all of Lev. 10. In particular, honor also explains the speeches of Yhwh and Aaron, the transition from the prohibition of mourning to Aaron’s grant of interpretive authority, and the overall narrative tension and resolution of the chapter’s narrative. This article will briefly review and critique Houston’s article and then argue that Lev. 10 contains a rhetoric of honor that coordinates relationships between Yhwh, priests, and people in a way that brings greater coherence to the chapter as a whole.

The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source

The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source

신기후체제하에서 파리협정과 무역협정과의 조화방안에 대한 연구

Unlike the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement does not contain provisions specifying how climate policy and trade rules relate to each other. For harmonious interaction between trade agreements and climate agreements, the following harmonization measures are presented. First, the WTO legal reform is to develop an authoritative interpretation of Articles 20(b), (g) and Chapeau of the GATT, despite the lack of political support. Second, the dispute settlement system according to the WTO can further support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Third, the negotiation of RTAs is a promising way to introduce and test new rules on climate and trade. Fourth, the adoption of climate-related multilateral trade agreements in Annex 4 of the WTO Agreement provides the WTO options for setting rules for trade and climate policy. Fifth, the WTO and UNFCCC organizations can increase transparency and accountability.

Exercising the Authority of Unified Interpretation of the Law and Its Separation: Examining from the Perspectives of Grand Chamber of Supreme Administrative Court and Grand Justices of Judicial Yuan

Exercising the Authority of Unified Interpretation of the Law and Its Separation: Examining from the Perspectives of Grand Chamber of Supreme Administrative Court and Grand Justices of Judicial Yuan

Proof of Foreign Nationality and Citizenship Deprivation: Pham and Competing Approaches to Proof in the British Courts

This paper analyses competing approaches to proof of foreign nationality in the British courts, in the context of challenges to deprivation of citizenship. I argue that prevalent British approaches to proof, as on display in the Pham litigation and subsequent cases, are in unproductive tension with a fundamental principle of nationality law, namely that it is for each state to determine under its law who are its nationals. Prevalent British approaches elide this principle, effectively wresting interpretive authority over foreign nationality law away from the relevant foreign state. I argue for approaches focused on direct ascertainment of foreign nationality, as opposed to its reconstruction according to British standards.

Enoch-Metatron Revisited: Prayers, Adjurations, and Metonymical Hermeneutics in Premodern Jewish Mystical and Magical Texts


 This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts. The process of interpretation in that sense does not simply replace one set of meanings with another but rather metonymically enlarges the pool of signifiers by juxtaposing the traditional and the innovative, thus safeguarding the whole range of possible meanings of texts. The cluster of topoi relating to Enoch-Metatron, a supreme angel featuring in Jewish textual traditions, has often been employed in Jewish exegesis and magical practices in a manner that enabled the new interpretation to nest within the set of older imaginaire, the authority of which is never denied nor supplanted but rather empowers the new reading. This article explores the uses the Enoch-Metatron cluster of motifs as a textual device that served as an organizing principle of interpretive process and conferred authority to new interpretations and new compilations of texts in multiple-text handwritten volumes. The article thus foregrounds a mode of reading and refashioning of earlier Jewish textual traditions of commenting on angelic names, such as that of Enoch-Metatron. It forefronts the perspective of the producers of individual practical compilations as participants in the collective enterprise of authorship and authorization of textual units comprised in each handwritten multiple-text volume.

Ljudi s bedema / The People on the Edge

​Are western Muslims an endangered species, or are they the future of Islam? The accelerated adaptation and change western Muslims are pushed to make in order just to survive has galvanized them into a serious effort of rethinking and reflection. This has, in turn, moved the worldwide debate on Islamic reform into a new higher gear. While Muslim intellectual activism in the West had deep historical roots, the claims of the new emerging movements and intellectual figures to moral, intellectual and religious leadership of the Ummah are unprecedented in their boldness and pride in their specifically western/modernist credentials. Moreover, it is paradoxical that what is in essence a response to the precariousness of the increasingly vulnerable Muslim presence in the West is at the same time trying to present itself as the most authoritative interpretation of Islam. This paper traces the historical roots of western Muslim intellectual activism, and assesses its success in attracting support both within the West and the wider Muslim world.

Authority and authenticity in teachers’ questions about literature in three contexts

PurposeThis study aims to explore the authentic questioning practices of English Language Arts teachers. Although language arts (LA) education emphasizes the value of authentic questions in discussions about literature, teachers still tend to ask known-answer questions that guide students toward one literary interpretation. However, outside their classrooms, teachers talk about literary texts from stances of openness and curiosity. Helping teachers recognize and draw on their out-of-school literary practices might help them disrupt entrenched known-answer discourses. The authors studied how the same teachers asked questions about literature in different settings. The authors asked: To what degree and in what ways did teachers’ questions about literature change when they took on different roles in discussions of literature?Design/methodology/approachDrawing on theories of classroom discourses and everyday practices, this study compared and analyzed types of questions asked by high school teachers as they took on three roles: teacher in the high school classroom, discussion leader in a professional development and everyday reader in discussion.FindingsAnalysis showed that as participants moved further away from their teacher role, they were more likely to ask authentic, curiosity-driven questions that engaged fellow readers in exploratory, dialogic interpretation. They were less likely to attempt to maintain authority over students’ interpretations.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors hope researchers will build on these explorations of teacher stances and language in different roles, so we can work toward disrupt entrenched known-answer discourses in the classroom.Practical implicationsDrawing on this study’s findings about questioning practices of participants in their role as reader (as opposed to discussion leader or classroom teacher), the authors suggest that teachers and teacher educators consider the following: First, teachers need to understand the power of interpretive authority and known-answer discourses and compare them explicitly to their own everyday practices through rehearsals and reflection. Second, teachers might focus less on theme and more on exploration of individual lines, patterns and unusual authorial moves. Finally, when preparing to teach, if teachers can reconnect with the stance and language of uncertainty and curiosity, they are likely to ask more authentic questions.Social implicationsThese findings suggest both the power of entrenched known-answer discourses to constrain and the potential power of making visible and drawing on teachers’ literary reading practices in out-of-school contexts.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, no studies have made an empirical comparison of the relationship between the role a teacher takes on during discussion and the kinds of questions they ask about literature. This study offers insight into the value of everyday curiosity and other out-of-school resources that teachers could – but often do not – bring to their facilitations of classroom discussions. The findings suggest that teachers, teacher educators and researchers must recognize and recruit teachers’ everyday practices to the LA classroom.

Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

AbstractThis article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious ‘fainting wave’ that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this inexplicable phenomenon, and why this conspiratorial interpretation prevailed over alternative explanations of a more psychological or spiritual bent. Through this, the article contributes to disaggregating the seemingly monolithic, neo‐authoritarian Angolan state. More importantly, it points to the limitations of analyses pivoting on an idea of opposing rationalities, while at the same time demonstrating how historically attuned, deep ethnography can help us overcome the limits of more ‘scientistic’ psychological explanations.

Communicating The Amil Zakat National Agency (BAZNAS) and Its Authority Based on the Zakat Management Act (23/2011) in Indonesi

This research aimed to see how BAZNAS communicates its authority based on Law 23/2011 to its stakeholders. Zakat management in Indonesia is being regulated by the Law Number 23 of 2011 which replaced Law Number 38 of 1999. The change of regulation was expected to push Zakat collection higher as its great potential, but until 2019 there was no significant change in the amount of Zakat collection. We see the problem in the authority changes that have not working optimally. Thus, this research can help BAZNAS to map out the problems related to the implementation of Law 23/2011. The research used a qualitative approach by conducting in-depth interviews, library and documentation studies. Eleven expert informants were chosen for their connection and understanding of BAZNAS. The results showed that the BAZNAS authority was accepted by all stakeholders even though it did not take place as the prerequisite for the acceptance of Barnard's authority. The changes in authority had been understood by the leaders but only halfway understood by the employees. The changes in the authority were following the vision and mission of BAZNAS. However, they were still not in line with the expectations of many parties. Finally, the changes in the BAZNAS authority were still not fully implemented by BAZNAS stakeholders. The regulatory changes could not be fully implemented yet due to differences in the interpretation of legal authority between each level of BAZNAS.

A Survey of the History of Western Political Thought on Political Authority

In the non-political field, authority is a social relationship based on personal needs and a psychological mechanism realized by respect. This determines that authority is characterized by fragmentation and potential (Chen, 2021). However, the inherent characteristics of authority are obviously disadvantageous to the rulers who pursue the general obedience of their subjects. Therefore, in the political field, authority must be transformed into a universal and unified political authority. Max Weber believes that authority is the possibility that a group of people will obey certain or all orders (Webber, 1978: p. 212). This also affected the academic research on political authority after the Second World War, which has never been divorced from Weber’s empirical research (for instance, Frank Furedi’s Authority: a Social Study and Richard Sennett’s Authority). In fact, reviewing the history of Western political thought, we can find that there are many political thinkers who try to think about political authority from a normative point of view, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and so on, but their understanding of political authority and the means of legalizing political authority are different. This paper believes that Hobbes’ understanding of political authority is closer to its essential attribute and plays an important role in the history of Western political thought, so it is necessary to focus on it. Of course, due to the limitations of the times, Hobbes’ view of political authority also has some defects, so it has been questioned by thinkers of different schools of contemporary thought. By examining Hobbes’ view of political authority, Yves Simon, the representative of Neo-Thomism, reconstructed the relationship between authority and liberty, and made a strong positive defense for political authority. Based on this, this paper has three purposes: first, by tracing back to the history of Western political thought, make a normative interpretation of political authority; second, to interpret the core meaning of Hobbes’ view of political authority; third, survey Yves Simon’s contemporary exposition of political authority.