Argumentation and polyphony in encapsulating anaphors

Abstract

The paper applies to the encapsulated anaphors the lexical description carried out within the Semantic Blocks Theory (Ducrot, 2001) and the Polyphony Theory (Ducrot & Carel, 2008). By arguing on the secondary role that literature on such referential process gives to the argumentative-polyphonic phenomenon, the study makes use of an argumentative approach, in what argumentative chaining derives from a linguistic strategy articulated by the speaker based on his\her project of saying. Under such point of view, depending on speaker’s attitudes, anaphoric signing scaffolds argumentative meaning for the chaining.