The socratic dialogueas a discursive practice

Abstract

As a discursive practice, Socratic dialogue was recently revived, being cultivated in various environments, a fact that confirms the viability and relevance of this type of conversation. Thus, the present paper analyzes, with the tools offered by discourse analysis, the transcript of a Socratic dialogue session. Based on this analysis, several structural aspects of this type of dialogue became clear, the most important being the structuring „in two steps” of the discursive interventions: the person who leads the dialogue emphasizes an implicit aspect in what the other is saying, followed by a verification, by a question, of the validity of that interpretation. The interlocutor can accept or reject the interpretation, often without any regard for its validity, and then offers an answer to the question that is addressed.

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