This paper aims at identifying theoretical and methodological divergences on meaning indeterminacy in socio-pragmatic studies. The first part discusses two different approaches on the notions of context, communication and meaning, by opposing, on one side, Grice's and Searle's pragmatics, and, on the other side, socio-interactional discourse analysis, originated from Bateson's and Goffman's works and represented by Gumperz's studies. The second part establishes the theoretical and methodological implications on the analysis of indeterminacy, showing that the approaches mentioned poses different sets of motivations and phenomena.
discoursive indeterminacy; socio-pragmatic discourse theories