The research approach of hermeneutics is concerned with

The research approach of hermeneutics is concerned with interpretation, drawing out the meaning of a text or action.

It reads a part in the light of the whole and the whole in the light of its parts.

Textuality names the quality of being a text and is not the aim of the approach itself.

Evaluation is about judging worth or merit, a different research purpose.

Discourse refers to language in use, which is the object rather than the interpretive method.

Hermeneutics originated in the interpretation of scripture and later spread to the social sciences.