O uso das aspas como um recurso argumentativo – o apelo à voz do outro

Abstract

In this study, we analyze comments of news published on internet in order to investigate the use of quotation marks as a enunciative heterogeneity, according to Authier-Revuz (1990, 1998, 2004), who poses enunciative heterogeneity as the merging of metadiscursiviness and discourse ultimate otherness. We reflect on the argumentative functions that quotation marks could perform in texts, taking as a starting point the hypothesis that quotation marks are an argumentative strategy used highly on purpose, with precise objectives, despite the fact that some meaning effects slip away from the command the subject thinks he has over what he says. Quotation marks, by provoking a complex modification of meaning, point directly to the emergence of an exterior feature in the flow of discourse and, therefore, sign a protective distancing assumed by the speaker in relation to what he says. In order to put this analysis in action, we did as it follows: we found quotation marks in the comments of news published in UOL site; later, we reflect on the argumentative functions these marks could perform. We are considering as argumentative function (BRITO, 2015) the discursive effects that such marks cause on the subjects that interact through the texts.