METADISCOURSIVE EXPRESSIONS IN IBORUNA DATABASE’S INTERVIEWS

Abstract

In this article, we analyze metadiscoursive expressions as overt manifestations of communicative processing since they stamp in the text enunciative activity establishing speech as object-to-speech (JUBRAN, 2003). Whereas the communicative situation can frame the metadiscourse we take as the object of investigation Iboruna database’s interviews which have characteristics such as prior determination of the types of text to be produced, the definition of the roles of each speaker and interactional asymmetry between them, that means, despite they being in the same situation, their contributions are different. We show that these features what we call interviews for linguistics data collection motivate a series of expressions related to different negotiating about the performance of participants and speech development, as the start or change topics discoursive, conditions for the speech’s continuation, among other.

Keywords

• Metadiscourse
• Interactional asymmetry
• Interviews