Contrajunction and the body: the indignant and the amoral

Abstract

This study is dedicated to the observation of ordinary discourse (a type of discourse present in the discursive order, in the reiteration of its practices, in the triviality, in the ephemerality, and in the injunction for the maintenance of the game) by taking a specific point of view: the analysis focuses on utterances constructed with contrajunctive connectives, in particular, the adversative “mas” (but). The aims are to elucidate what these connectives, by means of discursive transversality, reveal about the interdiscourse with the established imaginary; to retrieve what was previously said, produced before, elsewhere and independently, which perpendicularly crosses the discourse produced in the deictic axis of the here and now; and to access the supporters that guide the joints between parts of an utterance. In particular, this study aims at examining how contrajunctive statements oppose propositions when the topic refers to the physical embodiment of man.