O fenômeno da modalização do gênero e-mail

Abstract

The general objective of the research is to identify the types of modalizers that characterize the discursive email genre and, specifically, map the types of modalizers, catalog the mapped modalizers, identify and analyze the argumentative functioning of the mapped modalizers, verify the effects of sense promoted by modalizers as a resource for discursive engagement in the genre and to identify the linguistic style, compositional structure and thematic content of the e-mail genre. For this, were adopted the modalization studies developed by Cervoni (1989); Castilho and Castilho (2002); Neves (2011); Nascimento e Silva (2012) and Adelino and Nascimento (2017). In addition to these studies, Bakhtin's (2011) perspective was adopted to supported the discussion of discursive genre. In the presentation of the genre email, were taken as base the texts of Marcuschi (2008); Cruz (2005); Klautau (2011) and Brazil (2018). The research assumes a qualitative approach of descriptive character and interpretative basis, since the modalizers present in the corpus were identified, mapped, cataloged and interpreted, paying attention to its argumentative functioning.The corpus is composed of 10 (ten) emails, collected from February to March 2019, through the world wide web. Ninety modalizers were identified, more precisely presented through the bounding modalization, deontic modalization of obligation and evaluative modalization. Analyzes reveal that such modalizers were employed in the e-mail genre to express a prediction of response, as well as to transmit an order and present a position of appreciation of the speaker when making an assessment in the utterance.