Deontic modalization: necessity or obligation?

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the expression of deontic modalization in three copies of the genre quoted to show that the notions expressed by linguistic marks in question are not always presented in a prototypical way. To undertake such analysis, it will be adopted a conception of language as discourse originated from a practical postulated by Benveniste (2005), in Linguistics Pragmatic (KOCH, 2009; PINTO, 1994) which has as its object of study the effects generated by the relationship of intersubjectivity, in the Theory of Argumentation within Language by Ducrot (1987) and the notion of prototype (ROSCH, 1976). About the genre in question, we noted that some occurrences of deontic modalization do not appear in a prototypical way due to the enunciation, a unique and singular act of an utterance production and the knowledge that the announcer demonstrates having of what is moral. We note that, although it is a phenomenon canonically attached to the conduct and the moral values center lines, the knowledge that the announcer has about certain fact determines how the linguistic mark will "act" in the statement.