CONVERSAÇÃO: CONSENSO E CONFLITO

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that conversation is both a moment in which people maintain and reinforce their social relationships as well as a moment in which they struggle for imposing their own opinions on the others. Both moments reveal to be a product of factors such as context of enunciation, world knowledge and speakers’ purposes. It is a study that considers language as a human being 's intrinsic tool that allows people to strengthen social ties and act upon their partners, and verbal interaction as a concrete expression of these actions.