Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics as the methodology of interpretation is concerned with problems that arise when dealing with meaningful human actions and the products of such actions, most importantly texts. 

[…] Meaning is that which is represented by a text; it is what the author meant by his use of a particular sign sequence; it is what the signs represent. Significance, on the other hand, names a relationship between that meaning and a person, or a conception, or a situation, or indeed anything imaginable. […] Significance always implies a relationship, and one constant, unchanging pole of that relationship is what the text means. Failure to consider this simple and essential distinction has been the source of enormous confusion in hermeneutic theory.

1. Who (is the author) (quis/persona)?
2. What (is the subject matter of the text) (quid/materia)?
3. Why (was the text written) (cur/causa)?
4. How (was the text composed) (quomodo/modus)?
5. When (was the text written or published) (quando/tempus)?
6. Where (was the text written or published) (ubi/loco)?
7. By which means (was the text written or published) (quibus faculatibus/facultas)?