Contraposition and old age: tradition and obsolescence

Abstract

The present study focuses on the ordinary discourse (a kind of discourse based on trivia, on the ephemeral and on the repetition of the discursive order). The focus is on enunciations built with contrapositive connectives, particularly the adversative but. The attempt is to recapture the previous knowledge, which was produced earlier, in another place and independently, which crosses in a perpendicular way the discourse produced at the deictic axis of here and now, to access the pillars that command the articulations between each part of the enunciation. Thus one observes how contrapositive enunciations oppose propositions against each other, when the subject matter is related to longevity of man and things.

Ordinary discourse; Polyphony; Contraposition; Old age