Autor: Roberta Pires de Oliveira, Márcio Renato Guimarães

Resumo:

The paper compares necessariamente p, p, and realmente p in Brazilian Portuguese. It argues that realmente is an epistemic modal. The main difference with respect to necessariamente is the ordering source: the former takes the real world, the latter, the normal course of events. Realmente has a lexicalized ordering source: real-. The ordering is established by the similarity to the real world. The result is a hiper-realist basis. Thus, realmente p entails p, but since it activates an ordering source, there are alternatives; it implies that there are non-p worlds. To utter p implies that the speaker is faithful. To utter realmente p fires a generalized implicature that p is in discussion, as claimed by Guimarães (2016), because it suspends the maxim of quality: it states that the real world belongs to p. We present the contours of this implicature.

ISSN: 1414-4217

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n1p127

Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2016v20n1p127/32591

Palavras-Chave: Português Brasileiro,advérbios modais,Semânti