Book, Language traps, As: meaning and action beyond [LS]

Misunderstandings can have disastrous consequences for relationships between friends, between a couple, between managers and employees... But how can speech mean more than what is explicitly said? This is the central question of The Traps of Language. With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Danilo Marcondes explores the indirect uses of language, its effects and consequences. Putting it clearly and simply, it then presents the basis for a method of pragmatic discourse analysis that explains and reconstructs these underlying elements, articulating the founding ideas of Wittgenstein and Austin. At the end of the book, it analyzes the interaction situations presented in the chronicles "Psychopath at the Wheel", by Fernando Sabino, and "The Alliance", by Luis Fernando Verissimo.