For a genealogical systematization of layers of meaning of the onion model of utterance-meaning: the speaker’s perspective - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i4.15483

Abstract

Considering the hearer’s perspective in the communication, Dascal (2006) presents his Onion Model (OM) as conception about the utterance-meaning, taking it as a set of different layers. In this paper, the proposal will be approach the OM through the speaker’s perspective (OMS) and additionally systematize it. The systematization will consist to identify the elements of the utterance under a hierarchical order, whose sequence proposed is (the contingent elements are in parentheses): pragmatic presuppositions; reason of utterance; propositional content of the sentence; (unconscious information); (emotional component of meaning); interference from the conversational record; felicity conditions of the speech act; perlocutionary force; (conversational implicature); modality; illocutionary force; neustic character of the utterance. The discussion that will be offer is deductively oriented and search for justify the arguments this formulation.