It's important to take responsibility for the things we say but we do also need to take responsibility for our perceptions of what others do
People can certainly backpedal & lie about their intended meaning, yes, and sometimes their original meanings matters. More often not.
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This isn't really what 'death of the author' - a piece of hyperbolic rhetoric - is about. More how readers bring their own meanings to texts
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I know. That's why I specified 'in general conversation.' I've argued before that this has broken its moorings & become more general.
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That the idea we create our own meaning of words & they're just as valid as the author's has become twisted & used to serve political ends
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There's a point here though where it becomes "how can anyone know what anyone else means?"
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Well, yes. Theorists like Derrida would argue that they can't.
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Derrida isn't is as crude as that, though some of his Anglophone interpreters often can be. Rather he talks about meaning being 'deferred'.
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Forever. Every text "engenders infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion."
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Yes, so meaning is never 'exhausted'. But which doesn't imply no meaning at all.
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Because of the way we tend to speak to each other these days (thx twitter) so much of one's original intent is likely missing, inflection..
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Tone, expression, they all matter. But in a way it forces the author to focus further on the meaning of their words. I don't think most...
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Should be hung, but it's fair enough to expect people to clarify and sometimes 1st words are the most honest. Every case is unique.
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Sure but there is simply no point in: 'You mean this' 'No, I don't' 'Yes, you do' conversations. I get this a lot.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/685624693093699585 …
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