From meanings to sense: principles for a dialogical analysis

The proposal here presented, which constitutes a part of works in progress, is based on the dialogical theory of language and includes an integrated treatment of the strictest textual-linguistic plan (the so called textual materiality) and of the broader enunciative plan. In this regard, the specific interest of the proposal is to present parameters for a discursive-linguistic work that consider, at the same time, the word in the language system (the level of meaning) and utterances effectively produced (the level of sense) for examining how meanings in the language system are appropriated by discourses and serve to establish senses in enunciations. This conception is based on the idea that words have not a given-for-all sense, but acquire sense precisely in the contexts of use, in which there happen interactions involving specific interlocutors, in activity spheres, and by means of speech genres.

Keywords:
Dialogism; Theory and analysis; Analytical parameters