Papers by Phelipe Rodrigues
The theory presented in this article shows that discourse cannot be related to society in a direc... more The theory presented in this article shows that discourse cannot be related to society in a direct way but only through the cognitive structures and processes of language users, because discourse structures and social structures are of a very different nature. Discourse is produced and understood on the basis of personal 'semantic' mental models of situations and on socially shared knowledge, attitudes and ideologies, under the control of 'pragmatic' context models that make discourse approprioate in the communication. It is in this way also that discourse is related to social situations of experiences, power relations between groups or institutions. Power relations, such as those of racism, are thus daily reproduced by discourse based on the personal and social mental representations of group members.
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Papers by Phelipe Rodrigues