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This paper is about the most general methodological problems of Discourse Analysis: The meaning and use of metalinguistic terms as "discourse" and "text", the scope of different schools and the incidence of orality/literacy distinction. the author suggests a global outlook of D. A. accounting for both oral and weitten discourse (conversation, letters, mass media discourse, literature, among other genres) by means og an integrative theory. Contributions from various schools must be integrated to account for this important dimension of linguistic variation, frequently diregarded or misleading in practice by linguistic therorists.

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The aim of this work is to offer some exemples of the discourse study form the point of view of the pragmatic analysis. To do this the author has begun explaining the meaning of the terms involved in it: pragmatic presupposition, conventional and donversational implication. Afterward she has applied her method to the enigmistic dialogue, the funny utterance, the political advertising, and the publicity.

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The aim of the authors of this paper is to offer a clarifying basis for conversation studies which would suggest several fruiful areas of analysis. Without claiming an affiliation to one specific approach, the authors point out a series of concepts an methods which, they think, ara essential for the analysis of conversation.

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This interview with one of the most important french discourse analysts focuses on differences between Anglo-Saxon school and French school of D. A. Manigueneau explains his own theoretical position against this discipline and points us «Genèses du discours» as his most representative book in this field.

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Starting from the work of an Italian researcher (Sernicola 1981),Viana tries to relate to meaning production and planning some problems of discourse syntax. The paper rests on a descriptive level and compares the elaboration of text syntax to the making of preliminary sketches in writting. The capacity to sew on different bits is evaluated from the point of view of implicit bonds that could become explicit in discourse.

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This paper is about text connexity: similarities and differences with connexity in the sentence level, the conjunctive expressions which mark it (text connectives) and their function in discourse. All these aspects are reviewed paying particular attention to adversative connectedness.