Aspectos sintáticos da evidencialidade na língua portuguesa

Abstract

His article aims to identify and describe the evidential linguistic marks manifested by the syntactic aspects that allow the distinction between the enunciator and another source of the information conveyed, analyzing by what linguistic means the author of the text signals the source of what he enunciates. In identifying and interpreting the evidential marks in the construction of the academic discourse, the research seeks to contribute to the explanation of the effects of meaning related to the strategic transmission of information, since these marks are used for diversified purposes, suchas the so-called " argument of authority, "the search for attenuation of responsibility in relation to what is said, etc. According to the Discursive-Functional Grammar, the syntactic aspects are governed by pragmatics and semantics, that is, the explicitness of the evidential marks was done considering the emphasis on verbal interaction and intentionality (choice effects) of the textual producer