Modalidade deôntica na mídia radiofônica: uma análise baseada na gramática discursivo-funcional

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the deontic modality in the radio media 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. 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 radio media revealed that the establishment of the deontic values occurred more frequently, usually associated to the theme “opinion”, element of the contextual component. Among the deontic values, we observed the majority of obligation, as the prototype of this category. In relation to the source and to the deontic target, we noticed a tendency in the usage of the source from the enunciating type and also of a “third-absent” target. Finally, we verified that the auxiliary modals were the most frequent expressions in the corpus. Keywords: Discourse Functional Grammar; deontic modality; european portuguese; radio media.