Abstract
This contribution inquires the very nature of dialogue as a component of texts. Some contemporary models consider dialogue as particular kind of utterance beside argumentative, descriptive, expository and narrative ones. Nonetheless historical, theoretical and applied linguistic evidences seem to be consistent with a different hypothesis, i.e. dialogue (or reported speech) is one of the possible forms of utterance, regardless the role (argumentative, descriptive, expository and narrative) the dialogical utterance plays in a text.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Text dialogue and typology: historical overview, theoretical questions, applications |
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| Original language | French |
| Title of host publication | Il dialogo come tecnica linguistica e struttura letteraria |
| Pages | 29-43 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- French
- conversation analysis
- dialogue
- discourse analysis
- history of linguistics
- polyphony
- reported speech
- text typology