Abstract

FIRACATIVE-RUIZ, RAÚL. Textuality and argumentative grammar. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2014, n.24, pp.25-42. ISSN 0121-053X.

Argumentation is a manner of organizing discourse with an aim to persuade others. This article embraces this precept in order to address Italian author Vincenzo Lo Cascio's argumentative proposal based on the notion of textuality. This theoretical position, under the name of argumentative grammar, emerges from the ideas of the New Rhetoric by Perelman. Lo Cascio proposes the existence of finite syntactic categories, named categorical rules and force indicators, which enable the information from utterances and multiplicity of discourses to be analyzed; therefore, this is a theory that follows the line of Noam Chomsky's generative syntax. This article sets out the necessity of acknowledging the expository potential of words in quotidian communicative situations, in which the speaker must be conscious of his use of words.

Keywords : textuality; argumentation; grammar; discourse; utterance.

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