THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VAGUENESS AND LEXICAL IMPRECISION: HOW THE MEANING OF THE PROFORME ESO IS OBTAINED

Abstract

The pronoun eso has traditionally been considered as an imprecise and vague pronoun. However, being an element so imprecise and vague, the question that should be formulated is how is possible that this pronoun is so used in the quotidian conversations. If so, it would have to be concluded that the conversations try to be imprecise and vague and, however, the goal of the speaker (who seeks his conversation to be as effective as possible) does not seem to be in that way. In this article, it is demonstrated, on the one hand, there are grammatical and semantical-discursive mechanisms (e.g.: the organization imposed by the rhetorical relations) that allow to decipher the meaning of eso. On the other hand, it is intended to show that the pronoun eso, in certain structures (e.g.: y eso) has a value illocutive that it makes highly effective from the point of view discursive.