Enunciative responsibility and imputation in love letters

Abstract

In this article, we seek to present an analysis of argumentative aspects such as the sequentiality, emergence agreement to the preferable and marking of the enunciative responsibility/point of view in an exchange of love letters found in police suicide investigations. Therefore, we use the concept of enunciative responsibility added to the notions of prize in charge and imputation in order to observe argumentative and defining marks of the genre. In the argumentative analysis we start from the notion of value based on assumptions of the rhetoric and new rhetoric, also present in Discourse Argumentation Theory. Analysis data allowed to identify a certain direction regarding the emergence of the use of values between discursive and enunciative practices as an attempt to establish a possible agreement under the action of the target language (N5 level). We believe that for an analysis of the level of enunciation (N7), the correlation with the concept of agreement and the addition of the notions of imputation and prize in charge worked as a criterion for observing the discursive representations and incursions of the POV in the exchange of letters with a love theme.