The Construction of Meaning in Verbal Radio Interactions in European Portuguese: Discursive Mechanisms in Life Experience Narratives
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v34i1p44-59Keywords:
Discursive strategies, self-praise, Emotion in Interaction, Identities in Talk, MitigationAbstract
Based on a corpus of verbal interactions carried out on radio in Portugal, this article examines how, in these speeches, the process of constructing meaning is structured. To this end, it considers the enunciative framework, the sequences of speech acts and the discourse strategies that enable to attribute credibility and legitimacy to the discourse, capturing attention. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the construction of life experience narratives are analysed: juxtaposed speech, repetitions, the use of the approximate expression "e tal", the use of "pronto" as a discourse marker, the occurrence of identities in talk and the production of evaluative assertions. In this context, acts of self-praise with mitigators and the use of the declarative verb “dizer” in the third person of the plural to minimize the threat of the face are considered. Evaluation comments that denote attentive listening are also analysed, allowing for the management of interactional exchanges.
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