Linguistic Pragmatics and Normativity: Remarks on the Discursive Modalities of Common Sense

Linguistics must set as a task a theory of common sense, able to describe the mechanisms of semantic obviousness. From this point of view, the philosophical concept of common sense is redefined here in terms of semiotic process of the norms of praxis. The detailed analysis of these norms shows that they operate simultaneously in various registers. But the concept of common sense is also specified compared to discursive dynamics, starting from three types of variations (canon, vulgate, doxa). To these typical variations of common sense correspond functional criteria applicable to the analysis of corpora. The study outlines moreover a praxeologic & pragmatic model of the concept of "genre" & proposes to revalue the role of the speaker starting from the concept of "pluriphonie." It is a question of specifying, step by step, the idea of community of language. Adapted from the source document