Dinosaur: Surname? Toy? Animal? An argumentative analysis
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Teoria de Argumentação na Língua, Teoria dos Blocos Semânticos, Argumentação Interna, sentido.Abstract
This article explores the internal argumentation of the word dinosaur, based on four analyzes based on the Semantic Blocks Theory developed by Oswald Ducrot and Marion Carel. The corpus of investigation are excerpts from essays produced by students of the High School of Porto Alegre, who were asked for a text from the following statement: "When he got home, the dinosaur was still there." Looking at the productions, it is noticed that the word dinosaur assumes different meanings: animal, toy and nickname. This corroborates Ducrot's theory that language does not represent the world, but it is the speaker who puts into the discourse what he thinks of the world.
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