Tá serto! Só que não ... Argumentation, Enunciation, Interdiscourse

Abstract

In this article we discuss the relationship between discourse, enunciation and argumentation. We take argumentation as a language fact with different modes of inscription in the language system, as well as in enunciation and in interdiscourse. As such, it allows us to observe the functioning of the political element in language: the divisions in the language systems and between speakers for the rights to say, the ways of speaking and the ideological (interdiscursive) positions that determine the speakers, acting as the basis of argumentative relations. Specifically, we observe the operation of argumentation in an enunciative fact: ‘delocutivity’, which implies the returns of saying, and produces new linguistic forms of enunciation. We analyzed two delocutive interjections: ‘tá Serto’ and ‘só que não’. Both forms find their origin in digital enunciations in Brazil and their material character is intrinsically linked to their mode of production and circulation in the digital environment. As language forms, they are affected by processes that participate in the construction of the lexicon and incorporate them to the regularities of the linguistic system by an effect of delocutive enunciation as signs of an ironic mode of speech and connect their semantic-enunciative value to other modalisation markers.