Hermenteutics…

“…is the theory and methodology of interpretation” and “Modern hermeneutics includes both verbal and non-verbal communication as well as semiotics, presuppositions, and pre-understandings. Hermeneutics has been broadly applied in the humanities, especially in law, history and theology.”1

So hermeneutics is mainly about reading into things, try to understand them, create meaning or knowledge by way of interpretation.

Footnotes

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics