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construe v. to determine the meaning of the words of a written document, statute or legal decision, based upon rules of legal interpretation as well as normal meanings. |
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In the conclusion she writes: "Just as over centuries scribes, editors, scholars, and creative imaginers have all taken these female characters and images and shaped them to fit their own careful construals, so I have been suggesting that for women and fur (post)colonial readers there is a need to scrutinize them afresh and read them again with care" (163). One of the most fruitful construals of the self in postmodern philosophy has come from the French philosopher Foucault (1926-1984). The automatic, preconscious construals that are the effective instigators of such emotions are made so automatically and rapidly as to preclude the deliberative, sequential, analytical thinking that is characteristic of the rational system. |
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