Text meaning between writers aim and Readers Understanding. A Pragmatic Study

Abstract

The study is entitled (The text meaning between the writer's aim and reader's comprehension), the study is performed within the frame of pragmatics according to the descriptive method. The purpose of the study is to find answer weather the writer's aim and reader's comprehension are consistent? Why? Quick understanding is a measurement to allocate the type of a meaning, because the semantic meanings are received faster, while the pragmatic meanings later because they need deep illustration and interpretation. When giving a text to interpret its meaning to several people it is doubtless that the interpretations will be different, because the capability, familiarity, feeling, and sympathy of interpreters are different. We cannot say any of these interpretations is the final one. This is because a text is written to the reader that's why he is free in analyzing a text meaning. The analyzer possesses some power to differentiate and allocate a text meaning; if he is educated about the time, place, psychological and social aspects then the duty of the interpreter is not the analyzing, but rewriting a text according to his own viewpoint. We are never able to bring a text back to its original context, and when a context is found, it is a hypothetic and foggy context, because a text is a semantic unit not pragmatic unit. But relating a text with a context will make a text to be treated as an utterance. eventually we come to a result that the interpreter cannot fully reaches the writer's purpose, but can only relatively approaches the writer's purpose, and this goes back to the background differences of a science, cultural, and pragmatic competence of writer's personality and psychology.