A ocorrência da implicatura convencional no português brasileiro a partir de itens lexicais expressivos

Abstract

This work is based on the studies of Semantics and Pragmatics and aims to describe, based on the studies of Grice (1975), Bach (1999), Potts (2003) and Pires de Oliveira and Basso (2014), the occurrence of conventional implicature (CI) in Brazilian Portuguese through expressives. Except for the brief description of this implicature by Pires de Oliveira and Basso (2014), there is no other work that has proposed this investigation, in Portuguese, from such a theoretical perspective. Thus, a brief overview of the studies on inferences in Semantics and Pragmatics is presented firstly, in order to compare CIs to the other types of implications. The properties of the CIs are also described, assuming that they occur at the evaluative level and are independent of the truth conditions and atissue contents of the sentence. In this context, the presence of CI in sentences that are in indirect speech generates two different reading possibilities, whose scope can be attributed to both the speaker of the proposition, in a reading of conventional implicature, and the subject of the discourse reported, in a reading of non-implicature. Based on the application of a questionnaire, it was verified that the native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, especially journalists and Journalism students, not only recognize the CI in the reading, but demonstrate to use some resources to avoid it during transcriptions of direct speech to indirect speech, in writing.