A discourse-functional analysis of correction

• Autor(a) principal: Pezatti, Erotilde Goreti
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Camacho, Roberto Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/1349
• topic: Discurso falado; correção; clarificação; constituinte extraoracional; ato discursivo; Spoken discourse; correction; clarification; extra-clausal constituent; discourse act

A text processing may contain "problems" of formulation and continuity, at least in the mind of the speaker, which are reformulable for her/him and which require corrections. There are two types of corrections: infirmation, in which all or part of the information expressed in the previous discourse is invalidated, and rectification, in which the original and the reformulating utterance are in the same semantic direction (FÁVERO; ANDRADE; AQUINO, 1999, p. 61). In Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), both rectifying and infirmative correction are called either "clarification" or "correction". The aim of this paper is to describe two specific types of Extra-Clausal Constituents in spoken Portuguese grammar, namely correction and clarification, through qualitative analysis procedures. In doing so, we take the position advocated by Giomi and Keizer (2020) that these constituents are in fact discourse acts that perform specific rhetorical functions on the surface of the text. Paying particular attention to the functionalist postulate that analysis should focus as much as possible on language use in social context, a qualitative interpretive analysis is applied to data collected in the Urban Cult Norm Project (NURC)/Brazil, as reported by Castilho (1990). The results point out the syntactically loose character of these constituents in relation to the sentence structure, which allows them to appear in different places, repeated or not, in the morphosyntactic encoding. In conclusion, we propose that in the discourse situation where the original utterance is not sufficiently specified, the reformulation should be called clarification, and in the situation where the original utterance is invalid, the reformulation should be called correction.