Espaços mentais na conceptualização de conversa: dois modelos em análise

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of excerpts from a conversation in the light of the Mental Spaces Theory (MET), proposed by Fauconnier (1997), and the Basic Communicative Spaces Network (BCSN) by Ferrari and Sweetser (2012), to demonstrate the adequacy of BCSN to describe the conceptual organization of conversation. The analyzed excerpts were extracted from XXXX's sample (2002), which consists of the transcription of a conversation, with about 30 minutes, recorded during a dinner, in 1988, with the participation of five people. Through the confrontation between the MET and BCSN models for the analysis of verbal interaction, it was possible to achieve more theoretical and methodological refinement, since the postulation of a ground composed of other spaces activated along the construction of meaning of the interaction in progress has allowed encompassing concepts that were allied to the analysis based on MET. The resumption of XXXX's analysis (2002) based on the BCSN revealed, therefore, an improvement in the description of the conceptual organization of conversation in terms of its linguistic, contextual and interactional aspects.