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- Title
Editoriais sobre a pandemia do coronavírus: a modalidade facultativa.
- Authors
Silva Oliveira, André
- Abstract
This work aims to describe and analyse the facultative modality as a resource and argumentative strategy in the opinionated journalistic genre, the editorial. For that, we resort to studies related to the discursive modalization and the typology of the modalities of Hengeveld (2004), which defines the facultative modality as that referring to the intrinsic and acquired abilities and skills. Therefore, 60 editorials were selected and made available online on the website of the newspaper O Diário do Nordeste, whose content addressed the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. After the analysis of the facultative modality in the editorials, it was found that the speaker does not preferably include [-inclusion] in the incidence of modal value, choosing modal orientations for the Event, making the installed option less emphatic [-categorical] and with positive modalized statements [+ positive]. When introducing the facultative modality, the editorialist mostly used modal auxiliaries, inflected in the present indicative, which brings the facultative modality closer to the realis aspect, or in the subjunctive present, which brings it closer to the unrealis aspect. Finally, the relevance of the facultative modality as a resource and argumentative strategy was concluded, in which it is engendered in the discourse in view of the editorialist's intentions and communicative purposes.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; ELECTRONIC newspapers; MODAL logic; DISCOURSE; ABILITY
- Publication
Calidoscópio, 2021, Vol 19, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1679-8740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/cld.2021.191.05