L’interaction épistolaire entre dialogue in absentia et in praesentia chez Cicéron
Résumé
Cicero’s usual correspondence is chosen as corpus in order to analyse the relationship between epistolary communication and face-to-face dialogue, which is assumed as prototypical form of dialogue. Following interactivity and intentionality as lines of research, this comparison shows that the use of written (instead of oral) channel and the physical distance between communicative partners are compensated by linguistic strategies, which recreate a sort of ‘spoken’ interaction with conversational turns. Moreover, the absence of extra-linguistic signals intensifies the ‘phatic’ aspects of language. This study proves that a taxonomy of forms of dialogue should not have recourse to discrete categories, as usual, but prefer scalar dimensions and prototype models.
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