Аннотация:From Semantics to Hermeneutics
One of the leading researchers of hermeneutics in the field of Japanese studies, Michael F. Marra, wrote: “…whatever goes under the umbrella of Japanese literature, art, religion, history, philosophy, and so on, would not exist in its modern form without the paradigms that hermeneutics provided in forcing Japanese authors to talk about Japan with a language which was originally devised for a reading of the Bible1”.Linguistics and hermeneutics are commonly considered to be mutually exclusive fields of study. Recently however, linguistic approaches have shown themselves to be effective approaches for textual interpretation. Here I attempt a linguistic analysis of OJ MK to achieve a more in-depth understanding of their meaning.