Argumentação/polifonia nas anáforas encapsuladoras

Abstract

The Thesis describes argumentation within encapsulated anaphors based on Semantic Blocks Theory (SBT) (CAREL, 1995; DUCROT & CAREL, 1998) and Polyphony (ANSCOMBRE e DUCROT, 1998; DUCROT e CAREL, 2008) approaches. The study assumes the hypothesis that SBT is an appropriate model to describe argumentative functions of encapsulated anaphors, since it approaches to phenomena as meaning (semantics) and sense (pragmatic) implicated in argumentation within any kind of language in use. Therefore since encapsulated anaphors comprehend doxa and paradox enchaining, the study investigates the argumentative strategy that is interior and ulterior to such expressions linguistic system, by describing their function of utterer’s approximation and distance from the evaluated statements. It argued on the axiological value notion, resulting that the very argumentation, inner to language, updates an axiological value in encapsulated anaphoric expressions, so that both concepts can be gathered in a unique notion for argumentation. Finally, the study took into account that assimilation and utterer’s attitude (assumption, according, opposition) within encapsulated portions can express different leveled evaluative functions. Such attitudes set levels of compromise from utterer in the concerning to the utterance, but all of them are axiological mechanisms. The result for discussions in the research points to the impossibility of describing argumentative functions a priori for encapsulated anaphors, since it is only within text articulation – and more properly within enchaining, target of assimilation of any attitude – that encapsulated anaphors can be dispositive for a polyphonic-argumentative strategy.