authorial intention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofauthorialandintention
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authorial
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɔːˈθɔː.ri.əl/us/ɑːˈθɔːr.i.əl/
relating to the author of a book, article, ...
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intention
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈten.ʃən/us/ɪnˈten.ʃən/
something that you want and plan ...
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(Definition ofauthorialandintentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This essay aims to address these issues of audience reception and some questions ofauthorialintentionthat they raise.
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Marking books was a way in which a reader created an understanding ofauthorialintentionboth for themselves and possibly for others.
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These students fail to develop ownership of their work and do not develop anauthorialintention.
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Authorialintentionis often difficult to know or impossible to prove - and may not be effectively communicated in text or performance.
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They were mass-produced commodities framed as art objects by giving them a title and anauthorialintention, and by placing them in an exhibition context.
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Contrary to declaredauthorialintentionand some critics' dismay and anger, the novel invites readings against its main plot line.
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An emergingauthorialintentionand creative imagination govern choices.
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In cases where the author is deceased, an intentionalist would attempt to approachauthorialintention.
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An intentionalist editor would constantly investigate the documents for traces ofauthorialintention.
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This stance was in strict opposition to reigning modernist and formalist dogmas that privileged medium specificity andauthorialintention.
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The meaning of a text is not neatly determined byauthorialintentionand can not be recreated without problem by a reader.
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The concept is of particular importance for textual critics, whether they believe thatauthorialintention is recoverable, or whether they think that this recovery is impossible.
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By focusing on figurative language, unconscious meanings, gendered associations and authorial intentions, the business documents are assessed as cultural and literary artefacts.
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Since it is impossible literally to get inside an author's mind, the issue of ascribing authorial intentions is limited, of necessity, to what the work reveals.
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Gronda's cooler acceptance of an interweaving between authorial intentions and social practice may lead even further.
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Authorial intentions in understanding satirical texts.
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He values agency over structure and stresses the importance of authorial intentions.
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He defines heteroglossia as another's speech in another's language, serving to express authorial intentions but in a refracted way.
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