Communication, Manipulation, Seduction

Communicative interaction is never fully transparent. A definition in terms of pure transfer of information is an impoverishment of the semantic content of a message. Other emotional connotations of linguistic interaction are deeply rooted into the depth of the psychology of subjects. This means tha...

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Published inLinguística (Porto, Portugal) Vol. 2
Main Author Parret, Herman
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published Faculdade de Letras da UP 23.11.2022
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Summary:Communicative interaction is never fully transparent. A definition in terms of pure transfer of information is an impoverishment of the semantic content of a message. Other emotional connotations of linguistic interaction are deeply rooted into the depth of the psychology of subjects. This means that the interaction is often manipulatory and even seductive. This paper tries to present in a more systematic way the conditions of manipulatory and seductive discursive production. Speech acts theory (Austin, Searle) and conversational logic (Grice) offered some tools to formalize more or less these subtle production conditions of nontransparent “communication”.
ISSN:1646-6195
2182-9713