Keywords
Fictivity
Fictive direct speech
Construal
Vantage point
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Abstract
The present work is aimed at studying a type of Fictivity in direct speech and the distinct ways it operates both discursively and intersubjectively by drawing on real speech data of Brazilian Portuguese spoken in the state of Minas Gerais. The study relies on Cognitive Linguistics, outlining the concept of construal as guiding the hypothesis that in their face-to-face interactions speaker and addressee use the Conversation Frame in order to structure Fictive Interaction (PASCUAL, 2014), especially the type here under study – Fictive Direct Speech (ROCHA, 2022) – as an intersubjective and argumentative device. The notion of (inter)subjectivity (VERHAGEN, 2005; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2005) intertwined with the notion of construal (VERHAGEN, 2005; TALMY, 2000; LANGACKER, 2008) is viewed as either linguistically codifying the attention of the speaker towards his/her addressee or as cognitively signalling alignment of perspectives (ALMEIDA, 2019). In regard to methodology, a corpus was compiled from spontaneous speech recordings at a beauty salon for the present analysis. We have adopted a methodology which blends a corpus-based and a corpus-driven approach to data (MCENERY; HARDIE, 2012; TOGNINI-BONELLI, 2001) thus allowing the corpora to guide our analysis. Apart from that, the qualitative approach to data not only conveyed Fictive Interaction samples of Fictive Direct Speech but also made it possible to identify distinct semantic-syntactic patterns exhibiting specific prosodic features. The results make the empirical acceptability of the phenomenon clear and reveal the use of Fictive Direct Speech as an attentional frame, and perspective-taking as an intersubjective and argumentative device for ultimately aligning different vantage points through discourse.
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