O conceito de perspectiva na rede conceptual das construções completivas epistêmicas: o caso das construções intersubjetivas disjuntivas

Abstract

This work is aimed at discussing the notion of (inter) subjectivity according to Langacker´s (1987, 1990, 2008) Cognitive Grammar as well as to other authors who deal with the subject. The concept is understood as a conceptual device for linking epistemic complex sentences in English, herein the ones represented by the [SN VEpist [that S]] structure, which co-occur with other intersubjective constructions, such as pseudo-clefts, conditional clauses, questions and negative sentences in a cognitive disjunction procedure. With basis on real corpus data from Almeida (2010), made of 382 occurrences of both [SN VEpist [that S]] and [SN VEpist [Ø S]] argument structures, as well as from BNC and COCA online corpora, intersubjectivity is viewed as a surface mechanism of attention to the addressee (TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2005) as well as an implicit device for conceptualizing the speaker´s point of view (LANGACKER, 1987, 1990, 2008; VERHAGEN, 2005; NUYTS, 2001) as distinct from the others activated in discourse, thus conveying a non-alignment procedure towards the perspective available in the discourse flow. Data showed that such constructions convey intersubjectivity both in explicit and implicit terms, thus allowing the notion to be viewed as a device linking such constructions in a conceptual network.