INDICATORS OF DISSOCIATION IN FRENCH AND THEIR ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

Abstract

Dissociation, a concept introduced in Argumentation Theory by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (The New Rhetoric, 1958), is considered in studies of argumentation and of rhetoric as a technique which allows a speaker to change the notional starting points of a discussion. Dissociation is a rhetorical mechanism allowing the speaker to discard the semantic contents corresponding to a given notion and to propose a new semantic content as corresponding to the notion assigned this time the linguistic expression the true X. This is the prototypical formula corresponding to the mechanism of dissociation, but other words and phrases, more commonly called indicators may also serve to identify a dissociation in context.