A integração dos aspectos sintáticos, semânticos e pragmático-discursivos na manifestação da evidencialidade

Abstract

This article presents reflections on the integration of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic-discursive aspects in the manifestation of evidentiality, in data collected during the Doctoral Thesis (CARIOCA, 2011) entitled “The Evidentiality in academic texts of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese degree”. The analysis, guided by functionalist assumptions, has a theoretical dimension, focused on the re-discussion of the conceptual boundaries between the modality and evidentiality categories; and an analytical dimension that, in constant dialogue with theory, investigates, qualitatively and quantitatively, the use of evidentiality marks in monographs, dissertations and theses. It was verified that, through the integration of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic-discursive aspects, the effects of sense associated to the use of means of expression of evidentiality in the construction of the argumentation of the academic texts of degree of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese collaborate so that the attenuation of responsibility is done in a discreet way, signaling that something is not being said categorically.