Book, Language Traps, The: Meaning and Action beyond[LS]

Misunderstandings can have disastrous consequences for relationships between friends, between couples, between managers and employees.. But how can speech mean more than what is explicitly said? This is the central question of The Traps of Language. With over 30 years of teaching experience, Danilo Marcondes explores the indirect uses of language, its effects and consequences. Presenting itself clearly and simply, it then presents the bases for a method of pragmatic discourse analysis that makes explicit and reconstructs these underlying elements, articulating the founding ideas of Wittgenstein and Austin.. At the end of the book, he analyzes the interaction situations presented in the chronicles "Psicopata ao volante", by Fernando Sabino, and "A Aliança", by Luis Fernando Verissimo.