Subjective positioning and academic dialogue: the case of metaphorical statements

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.85568
Keywords: dialogic causes of enunciation, discourse frames, sense effects, polemics, poetic effects
Agencies: Este trabajo fue realizado en el marco del PICT 2942/2017, El enfoque dialógico de la argumentación y de la polifonía. Un modelo semántico-pragmático para el análisis de la subjetividad y de la alteridad en distintos géneros discursivos, subvencionado por la Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina). Las autoras agradecen a los organizadores del número, David Sánchez Jiménez y Paulina Meza, por la convocatoria para participar en este número monográfico de CLAC, así como al Conicet y a la Universidad de San Andrés por su apoyo constante a nuestra investigación. Finalmente, las autoras también agradecen la lectura atenta y los comentarios de los evaluadores anónimos que, sin duda, permitieron enriquecer nuestro texto. Los errores que subsistan son de nuestra entera responsabilidad.

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the subjective positioning that appear in relation to the presence of metaphorical statements (ME) in the academic dialogue. We characterize MEs as relatively autonomous statements that materialize allusive points of view by poetic formulation. We maintain that, as such, the MEs compel to recover as their cause a discourse frame related to rhetorical-stylistic ways of saying, which in turn explain the subjective positioning of response reflected in the enunciation. The theoretical framework is the Dialogic Approach to Argumentation and Polyphony. The analysis, which focuses on the case of a ME in a text by Lacan and taken up in a university textbook, shows the differences in meaning that arise in the occurrence of the ME in the discursive chain in which it appears and in the consequent responsive positioning that is configured in one and another discursivity.

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Published
2023-02-09
How to Cite
García Negroni, M. M., & Hall, B. (2023). Subjective positioning and academic dialogue: the case of metaphorical statements. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 93, 103-115. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.85568
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Vol. 93 (2023): Monográfico: Rasgos discursivos de la voz del autor en textos especializados
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Thematic section

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