ARGUMENTATIVE AND ENUNCIATIVE SEMANTICS: AN ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTATIVE OPERATORS

Abstract

By using the language in the diverse communicative situations, we choose linguistic elements that enable to orient the discourse because of a certain objective. Thus, in enunciating, the individual is arguing, since argumentation is an activity inherent in human nature. In this perspective, Ducrot (1988) considers that the argumentation is a phenomenon registered in the language, which materializes in the different statements produced, through the linguistic repertoire chosen. In this repertoire, it is often possible to perceive the presence of strategies or resources, responsible for directing the discourse, among these resources, we can highlight the argumentative operators, which in addition to allowing the linking of statements, contributing to the construction of text sense effect, and they determine the argumentative orientation of these statements. Considering the relevant role played by these operators in the construction of the text, we intend to carry out a theoretical study about these operators, from the perspective of the Argumentative (SA) and Enunciative (SE) Semantics, showing how these different perspectives of semantics treat the same object: argumentative operators. Thus, in SA we dwell on the theoretical assumptions of Ducrot (1987, 1988); Koch (1996; 2012); Koch and Elias (2016); Nascimento (2005; 2009; 2015); Silva (2006) and SE will turn to the studies of Benveniste (1989); Flores (2013); Guimarães (2007, 2018). This research, in the development phase, has already shown that when addressing the same object, both Argumentative and Enunciative Semantics point to the discursive functioning of the operators, sometimes approaching, sometimes presenting some distinctions in the way of treating these operators.