Discourse dimensionality : an organizational study

Abstract EN

This paper tries to discuss the dimensionality of discourse as has been understood from different standpoints: sequentiality and hierarchy by conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

Section two is devoted to the conception of discourse as a linear sequence, which enables the description of the internal structure of exchanges, while section three concerns itself with the notion of hierarchy, more suitable for examining the internal structure of moves.

In section four, the functional hierarchical discourse model put forward by Roule et.

al.

(1987) is considered as a synthesis of both approaches supplying a framework for the description linear and hierarchical nature of discourse, monologal as well as dialogal.

Section five examines one case of implicit dialogism in written monologue, providing a brief illustration of the type of analysis rendered by that discourse model