Resumo
There are many approaches to the analysis of discourses, each one emphasising one aspect of the discourse at the expense of others. For example, argumentation analysis focuses on how speakers justify what they say, but pays little attention to their intentions or motivations. Critical analysis, on the other hand, aims to discover the beliefs and intentions of speakers, but avoids a systematic description of the things of the world that the discourse mentions. In this talk I will present IAT/ML (www.iatml.org), a methodology for combined discourse analysis that unites ontological (what the speakers talk about), argumentation (how they justify their claims) and agency (what their beliefs, desires and intentions are) analysis under a common conceptual infrastructure and with the support of a set of software tools. By using a combined approach methodology such as IAT/ML, we can obtain more and deeper insights into the target discourses, understand conflict much better, and support decision making or other tasks that rely on a thorough understanding of multiple points of view.
Palabras chave
IAT/ML. Discourse analysis.