Uma análise funcionalista da modalidade deôntica em espanhol oral

Abstract

Our objective, on this work, is to analyze the expression of the deontic modality on oral Spanish language, in an integrative way, using the linguistic functionalism, which sees the language as a social phenomenon, impossible to be studied autonomously, separate from the real context of use. We delimit our corpus of analysis with the available material from the “laboratory of informatics linguistic (LIL)”, the Reference Oral Corpus of the Contemporary Spanish Language (ROCCSL). For the quantitative analysis, we used the program Statistical Package for Social Science – SPSS (Windows version). After our detailed analysis, in which we considerate from the means of expression to the marks of subjectivity, we verify that the speaker produces its enunciate from the intention for the articulation. From its communicative purposes, the speaker is going to codify his enunciate in a way that he will generate the wanted determined effects, whatever they are of implication, insulation or attenuation. We conclude that our elections, when it comes to producing the enunciate, are not arbitrary but they are conditioned, and not only by linguistic factors, also by external factors to the language.