Aspectos semânticos e morfossintáticos da modalidade volitiva nos discursos de investidura de Rodríguez Zapatero

Abstract

The present work aims to make an analysis of the semantic and morphosyntactic aspects for the expression of the volitive modality in the investiture speeches of Rodríguez Zapatero. In light of the theoretical assumptions of Functional Discourse Grammar (FGD), by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008), we intend to describe and analyze the volitive modality, which is related to what is (in) desirable. We intend to evaluate specifically the manifestation of volitive source and volitive target (semantic aspects) and the marking of tense and verbal modes (morphosyntactic aspects) for the introduction of the volitive modality from two discourses uttered by the former prime minister of the Spanish Government, Rodríguez Zapatero, issued in 2004 and 2008. Regarding the semantic aspects, we found that there was a higher incidence of volitive source of type “Enunciator”, with 63.76% of occurrences, and volitive target of type “Institution”, with 76.81% of occurrences. Regarding the morphosyntactic aspects, we verified that there was a higher incidence of the present indicative, with 87.24%, and greater occurrence of the indicative mood, with 93.62%. For the introduction of the volitive modality in the speeches of Rodríguez Zapatero, we find that the speaker (the one who speaks, in this case, the candidate for prime minister) prefers to build himself as a source of the volitive attitude, instituting volitive modalizations about the institutions (volitive target), using, for this, to employ the present in the indicative mood.