A (im)precisão dos sentidos: uma reflexão acerca da ambiguidade pela ótica discursiva

Abstract

This article presents a reflection about the phenomenon of ambiguity. For this purpose we will firstly introduce the language as an object of study and the different approaches that it might receive. We start with Aristotle’s vision, who refers to it as amphiboly and considers it to be a consequence of the discrepancy caused by the infinitude of things and the finitude of the names which represent them. We will then discuss the explanation given by the Formal Semantics based on Ruth Kempson’s studies. Finally, we will bring the French Discourse Analysis perspective which conceptions will guide us in this reflection. The excerpts which will bring for analysis will allow us to demonstrate a search for a language that may evoke unique meanings, which before systematic reflection may be “sanitized” from those elements that may provoke ambiguity.