construal
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Construal is the way something is interpreted or understood—the particular meaning assigned to words, actions, or situations.
The term appears most often in legal, psychological, and linguistic contexts, where how something is construed matters as much as what was said or done: Her construal of the contract differed significantly from his.
A construal is an act of construing, or the result of that act.
Organized representational structure
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- cognitiveRelating to thinking
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- categorizationArranging into groups
conceptualization · processing · psychology · abstraction · psychological distance · mindset · appraisal · attribution
Way of seeing things
- lensLight-focusing curved glass
- angleGeometric measure of rotation
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- vantagePosition of advantage
stance · standpoint · outlook · orientation · context · aspect · position · approach
Study of interpretation methods
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- sensemakingConstructing meaning from information
- readingInterpreting written text
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
decoding · explication · elucidation · gloss · annotation · translation · paraphrase · inferencing
Rules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- parsingGrammatical structure extraction
- predicationAttributing property to subject
clause · discourse · pragmatics · reference · anaphora · modification · transitivity · voice
schema
Organized representational structure
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- cognitiveRelating to thinking
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
categorization · conceptualization · processing · psychology · abstraction · psychological distance · mindset · appraisal · attribution · encoding
viewpoint
Way of seeing things
- lensLight-focusing curved glass
- angleGeometric measure of rotation
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
vantage · stance · standpoint · outlook · orientation · context · aspect · position · approach · filter
hermeneutics
Study of interpretation methods
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- sensemakingConstructing meaning from information
- readingInterpreting written text
rendering · decoding · explication · elucidation · gloss · annotation · translation · paraphrase · inferencing · subtext
syntax
Rules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- parsingGrammatical structure extraction
predication · clause · discourse · pragmatics · reference · anaphora · modification · transitivity · voice · aspect
- explanationswhy, how come, explication, what happened, definition
- interpretationinterpretive dance, translation, interpreting, translating, rendition
- semanticsmeaning, denotation, sense, connotation, reference
construalraw text
Unprocessed string data
source material · original text · bare facts · raw input · direct quotation
- under constructionCurrently being made
- construction paperSturdy colored sheets for projects
- construction siteWhere edifices get erected
- construction workerOne who erects structures
- construction permitApproval to erect structures
- construction zoneArea under active building
construct, construction, constructive, reconstruction, construe, misconstrue, constructor, deconstruct, construing