O valor deôntico de obrigação e a polaridade: uma análise discursivo-funcional no português europeu

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the deontic modality in the media discourse under the functionalist approach, seeking to integrate the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components in the analysis, which implies the study of language in its effective usage. Thus, we sought to establish relations among the elements which compose the several levels based on the model proposed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). For so, we utilized the corpus REDIP which was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Linguistics Institute (ILTEC), situated in Portugal. The analysis of the data obtained in relation to the media discourse revealed that: (i) the “obligation not to act” occurred more frequently than the “denial of obligation”; (ii) the verbal temps and mood most frequent were the present of indicative; (iii) the theme most usage was actuality. Finally, we verified that the auxiliary modals were the most frequent expressions in the corpus.