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| Author(s): |
Marcos Rogério Cintra
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2011-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Ingedore Grunfeld Villaça Koch;
Anna Christina Bentes;
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho;
Clelia Candida Abreu Spinardi Jubran;
Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves
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| Advisor: | Ingedore Grunfeld Villaça Koch |
| Abstract | |
Based on a social cognitive approach, this study focuses on the verbal manifestation of the future of present in the genre News with Interview (NWI) in the radio programs "Desperta Rio Preto," "Jornal do Servidor Público Municipal," and "Jornal do Trabalhador," all aired in the town of São José do Rio Preto - SP. We argue that certain forms of verbal expression can be discursively motivated and therefore it is possible to analyze the manifestation of futurity by understanding the interactive situation. Defined as a genre whose communicative purpose consists of publicizing planned actions (whether it be events or procedures), NWI is described as a shared and strategically elaborated activity performed by social actors which play roles in the interactional scene. Insofar as this genre underscores the factual nature of what is informed, the virtuality inherent in futurity is therefore undermined, affecting the projection of future forms in the discursive scene. This study focuses on the two most recurrent verbal constructions involved in the future of present expression in such genre: the periphrases ir (present) + infinitive (IINF) and ir (present) + estar + gerund (IEG), interpreted as two GOFUTURES, which differ by means of a strategy of discursive perspectivation of the newsreported infinitive event. As a result, we argue that the interchange between infinitive and periphrastic infinitive can be interpreted within the periphrastic futurity expression as a manifestation of two levels of perspectivation: "present relevance" (FLEISCHMAN, 1982a, 1982b, 1983) and "focusing" (LANGACKER, 1991, 2000, 2002 [1991]). It is believed that the genre NWI promotes discursive projection of infinitival eventuality as a situation in progress and, consequently, it enables the materialization of progressive future forms (IEG). Taking the types of news-reported events and the interactional dynamics of such an interlocutory situation into consideration, we suggest a discursive classification of the future forms and discuss the modal overlapping of major futurity constructions based on the interaction management (AU) | |