O metadiscurso interpessoal em artigos acadêmicos: espaço de negociações e construção de posicionamentos

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Cibele Gadelha Bernardino
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Metadiscurso; Lingüística Aplicada; Análise do discurso; Linguistica estrutural; Lingüística textual; Coesão (Lingüística); Produção de textos; Gêneros discursivos; Linguagem Estilo; Escrita acadêmica
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ALDR-745PUB

This dissertation examines metadiscourse (Hyland, 1998/2000) in research articles written by Brazilian researchers within the field of linguistics with a view to investigating the role of interpersonal markers (Hyland, 2000) realized by modal adjuncts (Halliday, 1994) in the writers projection of a stance and negotiation with their academic disciplinary communities. In order to pursue this, drawing on Swales (2004) a corpus composed by 10 experimental articles, 10 theoretical articles and 10 review articles published between 1997 and 2004 was compiled from a Brazilian indexed journal (DELTA). Firstly adverbs functioning as modal adjuncts were manually annotated in the corpus and quantitative data regarding their occurrence per article and per rhetorical section were retrieved with the software Wordsmith Tools. In a second stage, adjuncts were classified following Halliday (1994) and Halliday & Matthiessen (2004) supplemented by insights gathered from functional approaches to Portuguese (NEVES, 2000). A third step was to identify modal adjuncts functioning as interpersonal markers according to Hyland (1998/2000). Finally, a more detailed analysis of articles of each type was carried out in order to examine markers interpersonal within their co-text. Our analysis shows that attribute markers realized by modal adjuncts of validity, intensity and usuality were the most frequent markers occurring in the three types of research articles. Metadiscourse markers of emphasis realized by modal adjuncts of presumption, persuasion, probability, obviousness and intensity also occurred in the three types of articles, their frequency being slightly higher in theoretical articles. Moreover, the three types of article showed occurrences of hegdes, which were realized by modal adjuncts of probability and presumption, the former being significantly more frequent. Our analysis further shows that hedges occurred more frequently in experimental articles than theoretical and review articles and that attitudinal markers realized by modal adjuncts of desire, prediction and intensity were the least frequently used category in all the three types of articles. Of the three types of articles, experimental articles showed the highest frequency of metadiscourse markers, mostly due to the significant occurrence of hedges in this type of articles, particularly in the rhetorical section of Results and Discussion, a section typically present in experimental articles. This seems to point to a concern on the part of writers of experimental articles about expressing statements with caution and negotiating their claims to gain acceptance in their disciplinary communities.