The expression connective na verdade: contributions to a polyphonic approach of reformulative connectors

Abstract

In this paper, we start from studies examining the role of the connective expression naverdade in order to show that this expression has an importante performance in the way the speaker represents, in his speech, other speeches or other voices. Adopting the Geneva Model of discourse analysis as theoretical and methodological framework, we study the role of this expression in the polyphonic organization form of an opinion article and an election debate. As a result, this expression can function as a polyphonic implicit speech mark when the speaker retakes talks with origin in characters’ voice and also as a diaphonic implicit speech mark when the speaker retakes talks with origin in the interlocutor's voice. As a polyphonic implicit speech mark, naverdade reinforces information given previously, in order to gain the reader’s accession. But as a diaphonic implicit speech mark, the same expression works as a resource to attack, to reject or to impugn the interlocutor's speech.