aboutnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbaʊt.nəs/

名詞

aboutness (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 aboutnesses)

1. The relevance of a text to its reader. [First attested in the early 20^th century.]^[1]
   • 1982, William Cadbury & Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory‎^[1], →ISBN, page 19:

     The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.

   • 1996, Brian C. O'Connor, Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting‎^[2], →ISBN, page 147:

     Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.

参照