La evidencialidad en lengua española: un análisis funcionalista en artículos de J-blogs

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate, from the functionalist perspective, the manifestation of linguistic evidentiality phenomena in the Spanish language, peninsular variety, in the context of the argumentative genre "article" in j-blog. It is linked to the project Evidentiality in journalistic texts: a functionalist analysis in Spanish language under the coordination of Professor Dr. Nadja Pessoa Paulino Prata (DLE / UFC). In order to develop this research, aspects of morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic-discursive aspects are considered. Evidentiality is a category that deals with the source of information and, therefore, has a close relationship with the journalistic discourse, since it has the purpose of informing facts and forming opinion. The work is based on a functionalist approach, specifically in the DiscursiveFunctional Grammar (GDF), in which the use of the evidential markers in a situation of verbal interaction is described and analyzed. We try to verify the interrelationship between these markers and the discursive construction in the context of the articles located in journalistic blogs. The choice of this genre is based on the fact that it is a genre of social circulation that presents an argumentative character and, therefore, makes use of evidential markers, in order to present arguments/opinions that lead to the change from the point of view of the reader. For the construction of the corpus, we chose the two most widely read newspapers in Spain, which were identified as P1 (newspaper 1) and P2 (newspaper 2), in their online versions, according to the Asociación para la Investigación de Medios de Comunicación (AIMC, Oct. 2015 / May 2016). A collection of approximately 10,300 words was made. After this step, the texts were read with the purpose of identifying the occurrences related to the phenomenon studied for later qualitative and quantitative analyzes, being possible with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), in its version 22.0 in Portuguese. From the analysis, it was verified that the type of source most used was the third one defined, followed by the talking source (writer), which indicates that although having more "freedom" in the construction of his discourse the writer seems to prefer to identify the origin of the information conveyed, in order to manifest a greater effect of credibility in their arguments.