Na trilha dos modalizadores: perscrutando os jogos argumentativos no gênero entrevista de seleção de emprego

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Adelino, Francisca Janete da silva
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Linguística e ensino; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Argumentação; Argumentation; Argumentación; Modalização; Entrevistas de seleção de emprego; Modalization; Job interviews; Modalización; Entrevistas de selección de empleo; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8559

This research, conceived under the perspective of the argumentative semantics, aimed to investigate the most recurrent linguistic modalizers in job interview. This study objects to identify the ones more commonly used by the speakers, based on the incidence and function of these argumentative modalizers. The theoretical support of this research is the perspective of Ducrot and collaborators (1988) to whom language is naturally argumentative; as well as Espíndola’s (2004) standpoint to whom not only language, but also the use we make of it in our social interactions is naturally argumentative. In addition to this theoretical perspective, the assumptions on use of modalizers, proposed by Castilho e Castilho (1993), Neves (2011) e Nascimento e Silva (2012) complement our reflections, in the sense of explaining how the speaker’s subjectivity is displayed in the statement according to the choice of certain linguistic elements. We also base our reflections on Bakhtin’s (2011[1979]) concept of genre as it considers genre in a socio-interactionist perspective, which suits the linguistic perspective of argumentative semantics we have adopted in this investigation. In order to develop this study, we have considered the semantic and pragmatic-discursive aspects, since we consider language as an interactive tool. For the constitution of the corpus, we have recorded twenty-two job interviews, collected in a University Center located in Natal (RN) (Brazil), in November 2014. The analysis revealed that during the interviews, interviewers and interviewees have used various types of modalizers to draw their argumentative line. However, the epistemic modalizers, mainly through the deductive epistemic and the speculative epistemic modalizers, as well as the delimitator and the evaluative modals functioned as argumentative strategy on gender study since these were the most representative in the corpus. Therefore, considering the materiality of this genre as an event in which, through their statements, the speakers build points of view, beliefs and thoughts that make up the social environment of which they are part, inserting each modalizer constitutes a discursive orientation, presents axiological nuances that vary according to the position occupied by the speaker, orientation that establishes the discourse tissue which constitutes the genre job interview.