The evidential conditional value in journalistic domain
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v46i2.1684Keywords:
evidentiality, functionalism, conditionalAbstract
This paper proposes the study of a type of evidential marker not yet described in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), the conditional tense, which indicates how the speaker had access to the information conveyed in the statement – what is the source of the information. Based on the functionalist theory, it is intended to make a detailed description of the “conditional evidential value” in real contexts of use in BP. Based on occurrences provided by a corpus formed by genres of the journalistic domain, we aim to describe the functioning of this use, looking to set its characteristics. With this characterization, it will be possible to verify if the conditional morpheme can be considered as a way of grammatically marking evidentiality in BP, a process that happens in other languages. This description will enable, besides, the verification of the discursive function of this use in the journalistic genres that compose the corpus.
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