“…They take into account many genres: interactions between doctors and patients in hospitals, official texts, messages on monitors in railway stations, meetings, etc. On the opposite side of discourse activity, Cossutta's group (see Cossutta, 1989Cossutta, , 1995Cossutta, , 1998 is developing an analysis of philosophical discourse. My own particular studies are self-constituting discourses (religious, literary and scientific), i.e.…”