Rhetoric on sale. Discourse strategies in supermarket interactions.

This article tries to describe, in conversational and rhetorical terms, what happens in ordinary interactions which take place in Italian supermarkets. We show how some conversational routines can be conceived as hidden rhetoric. In doing so, we follow some french scholars, such as Anscombre and Duc...

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Main Author: Michela Cortini
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Panamericana 2013-11-01
Series:Tópicos
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Online Access:http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/367
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Summary:This article tries to describe, in conversational and rhetorical terms, what happens in ordinary interactions which take place in Italian supermarkets. We show how some conversational routines can be conceived as hidden rhetoric. In doing so, we follow some french scholars, such as Anscombre and Ducrot, who reinvent the relationship between information and rhetoric, giving the latter a more extensive meaning. The research, via natural data, shows how the way by which something is said and its use in a given context produces the meaning.
ISSN:0188-6649
2007-8498