Hermeneutic is a critical study of how knowledge of interpretation works. Hermeneutic also involves the philosophy of how interpretation works. Hermeneutic is more board and in depth then you can described in just one sentence. It is deeper than that. See hermeneutic is not just a word but it is also the name of someone. It is the name of the philosopher from around 500 b.c.e somewhere in Greece. His name is Herman, and his last name is Neutic. This guy Herman Neutic had something to do with langage and grammar. Hermeneutic is the science and philosophy of how you analyze, translate, and interprete text, signs and other media. When you use hermeneutic you will have to do some type of translation. You will be translating something into meaning. I guess we can say that we as humans use hermeneutic everyday because every second in every day we are translating things into meaning. When we read we are translating symbols like letters into word and then translating those words into sentences. We then translate those sentences into thoughts that has meaning. We also translate pictures and all sorts of things into images. We also interpret whatever we see, hear, witness, experience, et cetra into meanings that leads to a translation of another meaning. Like if you translate the weather being cloudy with a chance of rain it will mean that you need a rain coat, rain boots, umbrella or all three. Say if you interpret your stomach growling into you being hungry and then you interpret Digiorno discounted pizza on a commercial as way to save money and get good eats, and then you interpret the instructions as way to cook it, then you interpret your stomach being full and filled as an indication that it is time to put the left over Digiorno back in the refrigerator. When we use hermeneutic we are using critical theory in how we think and give meaning to things we encounter, experience and witness in the unconscious and subconscious. Hermeneutic is a daily aspect of the human routine in life. It is also a big part of communicating in society and in media. An example of hermeneutics being used in a social situation is in a case where the girl is trying to see if her boyfriend really cares and she starts to look sad like in hope that her boyfriend will interpret that as a time to hold and cuddle her and ask her what is wrong. In this same example the girlfriend and boyfriend are in an argument and the girl threatens to leave in hopes that the boyfriend would interpret that as a sign indicating that it is time to plead and fight for her not to break up with him.
The five types of hermeneutics(we use) are:
Depth - ask more questions, employers like an inquisitive learner
Natural - knowing electricity can get hot you can prevent fires
Scientific - interpreting that the ground will be more slick after it rains
Philosophical - you only use a certain tone of color because it symbolizes something meaningful
Normative - Knowing what is legal and illegal
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