An interpreter is a person involved in the process of interpretation, creating meanings from some text, discourse, or another semiotic phenomenon.
The interpreter should not be confused with what Charles Peirce calls an interpreter. In The Problem of Christianity, Josiah Royce formulates a theory of interpretation that emphasizes the role of the interpreter. Although in this work he emphatically acknowledges his duty to Peirce‘s theory of signs, here he goes beyond it, developing a part of the semiotics that Peirce himself did not develop in detail.
Sometimes Peirce uses an utterer and an interpreter to denote the addresser and the addressee of the message, respectively.
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