Atos de referenciação na interação face a face

Abstract

Starting from the premise that the process of referenciation is neither a simple activity of extensional designation nor of identification or discrimination of beings, individuals, things, facts, situations, states, etc., but a complex interactive decision developed by individuals in specific situations, this paper makes explicit how interlocutors arrive at referential consensus in the public and social use of language. It is based on the idea that reference is much more a situated and interactive action than an explicitation of a language-world relation or an act of affirmation of successful and conventionalized correspondences in the language. In the end, it postulates that our assertions are assertions of beliefs assumed as facts because as Putman says, it is reasonable to take them as facts. Therefore, to refer is essentially a process of explicitation of beliefs, interactively and publicly elaborated and admitted.