DISCOURSE THEORY, AN EVALUATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PAUL RICOEUR’S THOUGHT
DISCOURSE THEORY, AN EVALUATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PAUL RICOEUR’S THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: Discourse is a concept that underlies a large number of linguistic approaches in general, with ramifications in pragmatics, textual grammar, stylistics, literature, philosophy and theology. In philosophy, it is defined by its interplay of relationships, designating less a delimited field of inquiry than a particular mode of language that has creative power. In the present article we will point out that through preaching, discourse has the chance to say something about something, giving it full meaning being expressed in philosophy through meaning and reference. Then we will analyze the meaning and role of the word in discourse having a wide variety of contexts, concluding that the meaning of discourse comes from the conjunction of word and sentence. And in the last chapter we will investigate the two meanings of discourse.

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