Abstracts Language, Literature, and Linguistic

Funcionamento e consolidação da construção de sequenciação discursiva [[[x] + [vinf]elocução]impessoal + [que]]md sequenciador em textos acadêmicos: Functioning and consolidation of the construction of discursive sequencing [[[x] + [vinf]elocution]impersonal + [que]]dm sequencer in academic texts

by Katia Roseane Cortez dos Santos

This research aims to panchronically investigate the construction [[[X]+ [Vinf]elocution]impersonal + [que]]DM sequencer and the constructions instantiated by it, like [vale ressaltar que], [há que se ressaltar que] and [é importante ressaltar que]. Based on the Usage-Based Models (UBM), Construction Grammar (CG) and Textual-Interactive Grammar (TIG), we argue that this construction works as a basically sequencer discursive marker, acting on the intratopic organization of the text. Furthermore, it must be considered a schematic construction, whose relatively open positions in [X] and [V] allow the instantiation of three subschemes: [[[V] + [Vinf]]impersonal + [que]], [[([V]) + [CONNECT]] + [Vinf]]impersonal + [que]] e [[[([Vstative]) + [ADJ]] + [Vinf]]impersonal + [que]], which, in turn, instantiate different microconstructions. The methodology of this research is quantitative and qualitative, and were defined parameters of form and meaning for the analysis of occurrences. The data were collected in two corpora consisting of academic texts representing two synchronies of Brazilian Portuguese: 20th century and 21st century. With regard to the description of the meaning of the construction, in the current synchrony, the results of the investigation indicate: 1) preference for the topics opening and sequencing function; 2) semantics of highlighting in the utterance verb (“ressaltar” and “destacar”, mainly); and 3) expression of both deontic modality and evaluation in the subschema [[[V] + [Vinf]]impersonal + [que]], expression of just deontic modality in the subschema [[([Vimpersonal]) + [CONECT]] + [Vinf ] + [que]] and most frequent expression of evaluation in the subschema [[([Vstative]) + [ADJ]] + [Vinf] + [que]]. In the past synchrony, the following differences were observed: 1) preponderance of semantics of vision in the utterance verb (“notar(-se)” most frequently); and 3) prevalence of the expression of the deontic modality in the subscheme [[Vimpersonal] + [Vinf] + [que]]. The application of parameters of form to the constructions also allowed a refinement in terms of the description of their functions, making it possible to verify: 1) an increase in the fixation of the internal structure of the constructions, with a decrease in its compositionality, due to the low frequency of intervening material; and 2) the concomitance of the function of discursive sequencing with the function of weakly orienter of interaction, when it does not co-occur with connective elements, or secondarily orienter of interaction, when it co-occurs with connective elements. Finally, the diachronic analysis allowed the observation of a reconfiguration in the network of the [[[X]+ [Vinf]elocution]impersonal + [que]]DM sequencer scheme, due to increased productivity of the subschemes [[Vimpersonal] + [Vinf] + [ que]] and [[([Vstative]) + [ADJ]] + [Vinf] + [que]] and possible obsolescence of the subschema [[([Vimpersonal]) + [CONECT]] + [Vinf] + [que]], which becomes infrequent in the current synchrony.