Analysis of misunderstandings in dialogues
Abstract
This study analyzes misunderstandings in dialogues, based on concepts developed by Carel and Ducrot in the Theory of Semantic Blocks. This theory proposes to allocate as “meaning” to a linguistic entity a set of donc sequences and pourtant sequences and postulates two ways by which an argumentative aspect can be linked to the words whose meaning it constitutes: the external, sequences that precede or follow the entity, and the internal, sequences that paraphrase it. Assuming the notion of discursive argumentation, two dialogues were analyzed. We concluded that the misunderstanding is due to the fact that the interlocutors linked different linguistic argumentations to a single entity, producing, then, different objects of speech.
Key words: semantic block, argumentative sequence, misunderstanding, semantic argumentative.Downloads
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