Revista de Letras (UFC)

8-26

Authors: Rubens Damasceno-Morais

This article aims to bring up the discussion about the concept of third party/Third party from different approaches. In this sense, based on a theoretical undertaking in different fields of studies (textual linguistics, discourse studies, argumentation, rhetoric, philosophy, among others.) we suggest a classification that tries to account, at least summarily, of the meaning of the third party. To this end, we divided this work into three moments: a) dialectical perspective, which sees the third party as an indirect allocator, a mediator and an acting role; b) rhetorical perspective, which sees him as a transcendental audience, an arrow directed to a target, a communicational.