Meaning horizon, paraphrase, and phenomenological investigations in psychology
pp. 189-198
in: Leendert Mos (ed), Recent trends in theoretical psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1988Abstract
The integration of recent developments in philosophical phenomenology with those in discourse analysis may contribute to clarification of phenomenological methods in psychology. We argue that (1) the phenomenological analysis of implicit (horizonal) meanings enables precise identification of paraphrasing statements within discourse, (2) paraphrasing statements within discourse form natural, hierarchically arranged meaning units, and (3) the relations between such meaning units, although largely implicit, correspond to the structure of subjectivity.