Variations sur le malentendu ambiguïté, ignorance, deformation

Judith Lazar

Géographie, économie, société, 2005, vol. 7, issue 1, 109-118

Abstract: In analyzing the diverse senses of misunderstanding, we may, more precisely, envision that such a phenomenon acts as an instrument of manipulation. If the scale of misunderstanding is great, leading from a simple interpretive error to a complete reversal of meaning, what is the most intriguing and the least analyzed concerns the deformation of meaning. Here, the point is to distinguish between one instance where the author?s intent is completely reversed (first case), from an instance where the author does not become directly involved in that process, but submits to a ?deviation? of his thesis by those who cite him (second case). The two examples chosen to illustrate these phenomena are the theories proposed by Amartya Sen and Erwin Goffman.

Keywords: misunderstanging; ambiguity; ignorance; lack of knowldge; distortion responsible; diffusion incorrect; misinformation mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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