Modes of discourse: Ways for thinking actual debates in socio-cultural studies

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyze the various types of discourse and the different modes of thinking linked to them. The paper defends the heterogeneous nature of thinking more to the different activity setting in which the subjects carry out their actions than to the culture in itself. To demostrate this, the paper presents a series of episodes which contain different ways of justifying the way in which a task had been carried out. The information was obtained through the observation of Adult Education Students carrying out everyday and formal tasks. The analysis is based on the discoursive forms used by the subjects and the ways of thinking that these reflect.