La modalidad deóntica en lengua española: un análisis funcionalista en editoriales

Abstract

This research study is linked to the project Modalidad Deóntica en Lengua Española guided by Professor Dr. Nadja Paulino Pessoa Prata (DLE / UFC), aiming to identify the expressions of deontic modality in Spanish widespread in texts taken from the Internet. Our theoretical basis is centered on a functionalist approach mode which means that the communicative statements depend, in part, the actual speaker's intentions in relation to the expected him to share with his interlocutor. Thus, we made a demand for formal characteristics of language category studied by the genre chosen, the editorial. We chose this journalistic genre because it is an opinionated character of text that best express the deontic modality, with these characteristics clearly through the theoretical resources of extreme expressive ability of persuasion in an attempt to convince readers the point of view presented to the order to form an opinion. According to Moreno Espinosa (2007), the editorial discusses the most outstanding events from an institutional point of view and, as a result, the wording of the text is presented in a more formal way. Like other genres of view character, the editorial seeks to address the leading topics of the day, but not limited only to them, with the ultimate purpose to influence public opinion. It is noteworthy that the editorial presents the events concisely for future readers, analyzing them critically, which provides a higher frequency of modal aspects. So we base our research on the deontic modality, trying to analyze the forms of expression, the deontic values, time and the verbal mode, the source and the target deontic present at the editorial that made up the corpus. To carry out this research, we did a search for editorial (variant peninsular) in two newspapers published on the Internet, which we named Periodic I (P1) and Periodic II (P2). After reading the texts and data collection, we made the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the ways to express deontic modality by means of called SPSS software. With this research, we hope to expose the expression of deontic modality from the genre category chosen to motivate more studies and reflections on the functionalist approach