Minha voz, tua voz, nossas vozes: uma análise da responsabilidade enunciativa em artigos acadêmicos

Abstract

“My voice, your voice, our voices: enunciative committment in academic/scientific articles” presents research results from a study that investigates how Enunciative Commitment (EC) in academic scientific articles functions, with regard to the stages of description, analysis and interpretation in a set of sixty texts by authors with varying levels of experience in academic fields. The study aims to answer the following research questions: which characteristics of EC differentiate the writing of authors with varying levels of experience in academic writing; if the study of EC restricted to the section normally designated as Theoretical References (or variants, Theoretical Framework and Theoretical Mark) since detecting dialogue with other voices is easily noted in this section. The mobilization of the other’s discourse, evidenced, moreover, in the non-assumption of EC, is one of the characteristics of scientific articles, piquing interest as it pertains to the broader field of polyphony. These characteristics raise pertinent questions in the analysis of academic texts and didactic writing of these texts describing, for example, how the authorial voice is positioned with regard to other voices mobilized in the texts, or even about how EC can evidence the positioning of these authors as ‘scientific’ authors. The study is characterized as bibliographic research, interpretavist and qualitative, which adopts three categories of analysis: different representations of speech, mediator profile indicators, and indicators of the basis of perception and related thought. The theoretical perspective of this work is based primarily on the theoretical precepts of Textual Discourse Analysis (TDA). It also relies on theoretical support from considerably important theories, developed in discursive/textual genre studies, as well as enunciative-discursive studies, especially the rabatelian notions of loucutor/enunciator (e2), which is not exclusive to texts written by novice authors, point of view (POV), PEC, and imputation, enunciative erasure, enunciative positioning and posturing. The results demonstrate that the occurrence of textual zones that can be attributed to another enunciator (e2) is not exclusive in texts by novice authors, occurring both in texts by beginning and experienced authors, although distribution of the instances are not the same in the texts studied. From this perspective, the rabatelian notion of over-enunciation, sub-enunciation and co-enunciation, related to aspects of differentiation in the writing of authors who have different levels of experience, contributed significantly. The development of the POV based on over-enunciation seems to predominate in the writing of authors recognized for their expertise, in which the authorial voice overlays the others and dominates the enunciative play, to the exclusion of other voices, including through indicators of mediating frameworks. Assuming the EC as a consequence of the localized phenomenon on a level broader than the utterance, which considers the text in its entirety, and its various enunciative operations, admitting, subsequently, the possibility of having enunciative committment even when faced with the resources of arbitrary voices, and the support of mediating indicators. The EC, re-dimensioned for a discursive behavior linked to the ethics and morals that seem to transcend the dimension of the utterance and affects the positioning of the author on the level of discourse. The result, overall, is a text that is more engaged and affects the positiong of the author on the level of discourse, resulting in, how a text that is more engaged than the others, seems to achieve this through the mechanisms of developing POV.