Expressions métadiscursives comprenant le verbe portugais dizer

Abstract

As Pop states speech verbs are most likely to undergo pragmatization. In this migration towards the pragmatic domain of discourse they often acquire a metadiscursive function. From a pragmatic and enunciative point of view, we have analyzed the metadiscursive uses of the verb dizer ‘to say’ in several oral and written corpora. One verbal tense and two verbal modes are predominant: the present of the indicative, in the first person singular, digo, and the present of the subjunctive, in the first person plural, digamos. These verbal forms can have several meanings and functions, between discourse and metadiscourse, from reporting verbs to reformulation, autodialogism or modalization markers.

Keywords

• dizer
• digo
• digamos
• metadiscursive expressions
• reformulation
• modalization
• autodialogism