A transmutação de sinais de pontuação em marcas discursivas: o encapsulamento de atos de linguagem em textos jornalísticos

Abstract

This work investigates the enunciative-discursive nature that some punctuation resources take on in special circumstances. The assumptions and hypotheses made indicate that some punctuation signs transmutate in discursive punctuation marks, because they don’t play syntactic and/or orthographic roles, starting to sign the presence of encapsulated language acts by the act of punctuating. The comprehension of nature and of enunciative functions of the resources of punctuation is grounded by the works of Catach (1980 e 1994), Anis (1988), Junkes (2002), Dahlet (2006) e Serça (2012). Nonetheless, in the works, the adopted thesis, e the examined hypothesis make possible the approach of essentially discursive aspects associated with the enunciatives on the application of some punctuation resources. The search for the theoretical basement that grounds these discursive properties - evident in the occurrences of the studied phenomenon -brought to the research the theoretic assumptions of Searle’s pragmatic (1995) and Charaudeau’s conceptions of the act of language (2014). By methodological needs and research strategies, the discursive punctuation marks studied were restrained to four types: quotation marks, parenthesis, em dashes and square brackets. The occurrence of the phenomena involving those aspects are organized in a corpus, composed by texts taken out of online portals and magazines. As a consequence of the surveys and the pre-analysis of the found occurrences, an qualitative approach of the research’s proposal was enough and efficient, that deems unnecessary, according to Triviños (2019), data quantification. The adoption of this qualitative posture is based on the Grounded theory, referenced by authors like Tarozzi (2011), Willig (2013) e Paiva (2019). The methodological strategies also find grounding in the proposals of Bardin’s Content Analysis (2011), to whom the consideration of the basis of messages’ transmission ensures the epistemological aspects of a research qualitatively developed. The results reveal the presence of language acts encapsulated by these marks of discursive punctuation, that are, in their turn, capable of indicating the presence of discursive intentionality from the act of punctuating. In that sense, these resources present themselves as a true subsystem of orthographic code, effectively promoters of the general meaning of the enunciates they are applied to.