Sequencialidadade: por uma ecologia do texto
Keywords:
Text; dynamicity; spatiotemporality; sequentiality; ecology.Abstract
An ecological view of text production and consumption involves placing the text in a total world context. Context should not be seen as a static collocation of features or parameters; rather, it is a constantly evolving conglomerate of ever-changing conditions, both human and worldly. In particular, a context is never fixed in time; and the way we act in a context involves a constant adjustment of our activities, both verbal and nonverbal. This point of view has consequences for our understanding of both world and text: what I call ‘sequentiality’ is therefore a main constituent of our ecological text activities and a necessary precondition for our understanding and handling of a text, either written or spoken. Moreover, this way of conceptualizing and realizing context has not only theoretical importance: I will also try to show that applying this line of thought to ordinary human conversational interaction may have fruitful effects, and in particular enables us to do away with a mechanistic interpretation and analysis of conversation as it is currently practiced in CA and related enterprises.
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