Durant ces dernières années, le terme terrorisme djihadiste est devenu un vocable des plus récurrents au niveau international. Il est fortement présent dans le discours académique, ce particulièrement depuis l'apparition de ce qu'on appelle l'organisation de l'État islamique (Daesh) et également des attaques terroristes qui se sont succédé. Notre étude aborde, en première partie, les approches qui traitent du terrorisme ainsi que les facteurs qui ont été à l’origine de la propagation de ce phénomène et de l'extrémisme. La seconde partie est consacrée à l’analyse des discours académiques ayant traité des attentats terroristes en France en 2015/2016. Notre thèse tend à mettre en avant une approche analytique opérationnelle à travers l'utilisation de méthodes quantitatives. Nous nous proposons ainsi de prolonger la recherche actuelle en abordant plusieurs innovations méthodologiques relatives à l’analyse du discours universitaire sur le djihad afin d’en déterminer les similitudes et les différences, selon une approche multidisciplinaire et par une enquête analytique dans l’objectif d’en caractériser les relations et d’en expliquer la conjoncture. Il sera alors question de se demander s’il s’agit d’éléments spécifiques ou de la combinaison d’un ensemble d’éléments, présents dans une structure particulière, qui marginalisent ou criminalisent certains types de discours classés dans la catégorie du discours universitaire sur le djihad / In recent years, the term jihadist terrorism has become a term of recurrent at the international level. He is present in the academic discourse, this particularly since the appearance of what is called the Organization of the Islamic state (Daech) and the successive terrorist attacks. Our study first addresses the approaches that deal with terrorism as well as the factors that have led to the spread of this phenomenon and extremism. The second part is dedicated to the analysis of academic discourses dealing with terrorist attacks in France in 2015/2016. Our thesis tends to put forward an operational analytical approach through the use of quantitative methods. We propose to extend the current research by addressing several methodological innovations related to the analysis of the academic jihad discourse in order to determine the similarities and differences, using a multidisciplinary approach and an analytical survey with the aim of characterize the relationships and explain the situation. It will therefore be a question of whether they are specific elements or the combination of a set of elements in a particular structure that marginalizes or criminalizes certain types of discourse classed as academic discourse about jihad

Devant des exigences universitaires, notamment méthodologiques, discursives, linguistiques et culturelles, étrangers et natifs sont concernés proportionnellement par ces exigences. Pour le natif, la question sera posée en termes d’adaptation méthodologique et discursive à une institution supérieure au lycée au sein du même système éducative. Tandis que pour l’étranger, il sera question d’acculturation au système, aux discours et à la culture, universitaires d’un système et d’une langue différents des siens. Faire des études supérieures en langue étrangère dépasse les jeux de simulation et faire semblant, puisque les travaux rendus feront l’objet d’une notation et d’évaluation qui conditionne la réussite ou qui causent l’échec. L’étudiant est amené à maitriser différents genres de discours par lesquels il apprend et il est évalué. Le but est de former les étudiants aux savoir-faire académiques que peuvent les aider à acquérir des savoirs spécialisés dans leurs disciplines. L’objectif est de créer chez les étudiants des habilités discursives qui leur permettront « d’intégrer différentes manières dont s’élabore et se transmet le savoir à l’université, et de déceler les spécificités des discours qu’ils fréquentent » (POLLET M-C., 2001, P : 32). Pour ce faire, des dispositifs ont été mis en œuvre comme le « tutorat » ou la « méthodologie du travail universitaire ». Mais, face aux flux des étudiants étrangers et la nécessité de répondre à leurs besoins universitaires, un nouveau concept est né, et petit à petit a commencé à gagner du terrain dans les milieux didactiques, c’est le FOU. Un programme de FOU consiste à explorer les pratiques langagières par lesquelles le savoir circule à l’université. Puis d’essayer d’établir une typologie de différents genres. Ensuite, de dégager des dimensions enseignables conçues sous le principe de la transversalité ou au contraire basée sur la spécificité des genres de chaque discipline / To academic requirements, including methodological, discursive, linguistic and cultural, foreign and native are affected proportionally by these requirements. For the native, the question will be asked in terms of methodological and discursive adaptation to a higher institution to school within the same educational system. Whereas abroad it will issue acculturation to the system, speech and culture, a university system and a different language of his own. Pursue higher education in a foreign language beyond the simulation games and pretend, as the work submitted will be subject to a rating and evaluation that determines the success or cause failure. The student must master different genres of speech by which he learns and is evaluated. The goal is to train students in academic skills that can help them acquire specialized knowledge in their disciplines. The aim is to create in students discursive skills that will enable them to "integrate different ways to develop and transmit knowledge to the university, and to identify specific speeches they attend" (MC POLLET . 2001, P: 32). To do this, devices have been implemented as "mentoring" or "methodology of academic work." But, facing the flow of foreign students and the need to meet their academic needs, a new concept was born, and gradually began to gain ground in educational circles, the frensh for academics purpose. A academic purpose program is to explore the language practices by which knowledge flows university. Then try to establish a typology of different genres. Then, to identify teachable dimensions designed under the principle of cross or otherwise based on the specific kinds of each discipline

CARIOCA, Claudia Ramos. A manifestação da evidencialidade nas dissertações acadêmicas do português brasileiro contemporâneo. 2005. 115f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2005. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-07-01T13:46:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_diss_CRCARIOCA.pdf: 443992 bytes, checksum: c43c7481c2f112196bbce30bacbfefed (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-02T17:00:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_diss_CRCARIOCA.pdf: 443992 bytes, checksum: c43c7481c2f112196bbce30bacbfefed (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-02T17:00:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_diss_CRCARIOCA.pdf: 443992 bytes, checksum: c43c7481c2f112196bbce30bacbfefed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Evidentiality is a linguistic category used as a strategy to deal with information, considering the producer’s source of knowledge and his extent of (un)commitment to this source. In order to investigate the manifestation of this category in the construction of academic dissertations written in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, this work aims to: a) rediscuss the status of the evidentiality as a linguistic category; b) analyse the relationship between modality and evidentiality; c) verify the strategies used to indicate evdentiality in scientific works such as dissertations; d) identify, describe and analyse linguistic marks of evidentiality in such works; e) relate the use of evidentials to strategies of (un)commitment in the production of a text. Though the identification of evidentiality marks in academic texts, this work aims to contribute to explicit the sense effects related to the strategic transmition of information, since these marks are used with different purposes, like: use of the authority argument, reduction of responsibility in relation to what is being said; certainty/uncertainty modalization, suggesting that something is being said in a non-categorical way, suggesting a certain degree of (un)commitment in relation to the truth of the proposition, as well as showing a critical position in relation to the source of information, allowing a correct evaluation of the content taken in by the reader; among other purposes. The analysis, based on functionalist presuppositions, rediscusses the conceptual limits between modality and evidentiality. It investigates, in terms of both quality and quantity, the use of evidentiality marks in academic dissertations. This genre was chosen due to the supposition that it is one of the textual genres whose source of information is mostly not the author himself. This fact influences the use of evidentiality marks in relation to the degree of the producer’s (un)commitment to the information provided. The 290 ocurrencies were collected from a corpus which comprises 10 academic dissertations in Humanity Studies. Only the introduction and the conclusion sections of these Works were considered. The results showed that the sense effects are associated to the use of evidentiality expressions in the kind of argumentation process in dissertations. This proves that the evidentiality in the academic discourse, particularly in the corpus collected, is used especially to assure a lower degree of commitment, being the verb the linguistic means most chosen to express this, and the inferential and quotative evidentiality notions as the most frequent ones. / A evidencialidade é uma categoria lingüística utilizada como estratégia que permite a manipulação das informações quanto à fonte do conhecimento e ao grau de (des)comprometimento do produtor com essa fonte. No intuito de investigar a manifestação dessa categoria na construção das dissertações acadêmicas no português brasileiro contemporâneo, objetiva-se: a) rediscutir o estatuto da evidencialidade como categoria lingüística; b)analisar as relações entre modalidade e evidencialidade; c) verificar as estratégias utilizadas no uso das marcas de evidencialidade no trabalho científico de grau, do tipo dissertação; d) identificar, descrever e analisar as marcas lingüísticas evidenciais no trabalho científico de grau do tipo dissertação; e) relacionar o uso de evidenciais com estratégias para efeito de (des)comprometimento na construção textual. Ao identificar e interpretar as marcas evidenciais na construção dos textos acadêmicos, a pesquisa busca contribuir para a explicitação dos efeitos de sentido vinculados à veiculação das informações de forma estratégica, já que essas marcas são utilizadas com propósitos diversificados, como por exemplo: recurso ao chamado “argumento de autoridade”, atenuação da responsabilidade em relação ao que é dito, modalização no contínuo entre a certeza e a não-certeza, sinalizando que algo não está sendo dito de forma categórica e sugerindo um grau de (des)comprometimento em relação à verdade da proposição, como também um posicionamento crítico em relação à fonte da informação, permitindo uma correta avaliação do conteúdo assimilado pelo leitor, dentre outros. A análise, orientada por pressupostos funcionalistas, conta com uma dimensão teórica, voltada para a rediscussão dos limites conceituais entre as categorias modalidade e evidencialidade, e uma dimensão analítica, que, em constante diálogo com a teoria, investiga, qualitativa e quantitativamente, o uso de marcas da evidencialidade na dissertação acadêmica, trabalho que é requisito para a obtenção do título de mestre. A escolha do gênero para a constituição do corpus justifica-se pela suposição de que esse é um dos gêneros textuais que apresenta maior quantidade de informação cuja fonte não é o próprio autor, o que condiciona o uso das marcas de evidencialidade na relação observável com o grau de (des)comprometimento do produtor relativamente à informação veiculada. A obtenção das 290 ocorrências para esta pesquisa concretizou-se a partir da organização de um corpus constituído por dez dissertações acadêmicas da área de Ciências Humanas, das quais se utilizaram, como material de análise, a introdução e a conclusão. Os resultados obtidos verificaram os efeitos de sentido associados ao uso de meios de expressão evidencial na construção da argumentação em dissertações, comprovando que a evidencialidade no discurso acadêmico, em particular no corpus coletado, é mais utilizada para promover um baixo comprometimento, tendo o verbo como o meio lingüístico mais utilizado e as noções evidenciais inferencial e citativa como as mais freqüentes.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 10032345 bytes, checksum: 0424489eb03965928d8f7b941c11681a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis aims to investigate the modes of appropriation of scientific and academic discours practices in listening/reading/writing subjects of vocational technical course in Agricultural School ―Assis Chateaubriand‖ Campus II, the State University of Paraíba. The methodology which has guided the formation of the corpus of this work follows the paradigm of ethnographic research interpretative basis by taking into consideration the fact that in discursive events in the classroom, these activities take place as a trait of a social situation that includes the values, rules, meanings, attitudes and behavior of the interacting subjects. From this perspective, the data contained in our analysis area result of i) audio recordings of classes; ii) interviews with students and teachers; iii) the students written production; and iv) official documents. The data from the observation of classes, the reading and written production of the students, were collected from the subjects ―Aviculture‖, ―Management and Conservation of the Soil‖, ―Basic Fundamentals of the Soil, Plants and Atmosphere‖ , which are central to the modular organization of the Course in Agriculture and Livestock Farming into two large areas: animal husbandry and agriculture. In this context, the following objectives were established: 1)examine in the interactive events in the classroom, those listening/ reading and writing that can promote the inclusion of students to scientific discourse genres; 2) examine the conditions given by teachers to students to take ownership of the linguistic/discursive resources in academic-scientific genres; 3) analyze written texts ―abstract‖, ―account‖ and ―research‖ effectively produced by the students in situations referred by teachers. The theoretical foundation for this analytical process has been based on the theoretical proposals of Bakhtin and his Circle, as the philosophical thinking of these authors provides a base to articulate the different positions of subjects who act in real and concrete communicative situations. Informed by the data set results point to the inconsistency of an educational project in vocational technical course, sustained by ideologies of technical rationality and economic market economy, linked to a notion of language conceived as structure and text as one truth and universal. In dialogic situations of knowledge construction in the events of the lesson, the teachers of specific subjects think of reading / listening activities as object recognition / identification of scientific content through didatizados texts identified as handouts. When requesting writing in academic genres "abstract" production "account" and "research" by the mediation of texts of wide and narrow scientific education teachers use instructional procedures nonspecific, assuming that the student is a reader able to reconstruct the intention of the authors of the texts they read, informed only by the linguistic dimension. When requesting writing in academic genres "abstract" production "account" and "research" by the mediation of texts of wide and narrow scientific education teachers use instructional procedures nonspecific, assuming that the student is a reader able to reconstruct the intention of the authors of the texts they read, informed only by the linguistic dimension. / Este trabalho de tese tem como objetivo investigar os modos de apropriação do discurso científico-acadêmico em práticas de escuta/leitura/escrita por sujeitos do curso técnico profissionalizante, na Escola Agrícola ―Assis Chateaubriand‖- Campus II, da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba. A metodologia que orienta a constituição do corpus segue o paradigma das pesquisas etnográficas de base interpretativista por considerar que nos eventos discursivos de sala de aula, essas atividades interlocutivas realizam-se como uma situação de interação social escolar/acadêmica que inclui valores, regras, significados atitudes e comportamento dos sujeitos em práticas pedagógicas de comunicação oral e escrita. Nessa perspectiva, os dados de nossas análises resultaram de: i) gravações de aulas; ii) entrevistas com alunos e professores; iii) produções escritas dos alunos; e iv) documentos oficiais. Os dados de observação das aulas, a leitura e a produção escrita dos alunos foram coletados nos componentes curriculares ―Avicultura‖, ―Manejo e conservação do Solo‖, ―Fundamentos Básicos de solo, Água, Planta e Atmosfera‖, que centralizam a organização modular do Curso em Agropecuária. Nesse sentido, estabelecemos os seguintes objetivos: 1) analisar, nos eventos interativos da aula, as atividades de escuta/leitura/escrita que podem promover a inserção dos alunos nos gêneros do discurso científico; 2) examinar as condições dadas pelos professores para que os alunos se apropriem dos recursos linguísticos/ discursivos nos gêneros acadêmico-científicos; 3) analisar os textos escritos ―resumo‖, ―relato‖ e ―trabalho de pesquisa‖, efetivamente produzidos pelos alunos em situações de produção encaminhadas pelos docentes. Os pressupostos teóricos que subsidiam as análises são orientados pela proposta dialógica da linguagem nos discursos de Bakhtin e seu Círculo, por encontrar no pensamento filosófico dos autores, as bases sócio-históricas e ideológicas para articular as diferentes posições dos sujeitos que agem em situações reais e concretas de comunicação. Os resultados informados pelo conjunto dos dados apontam para a inconsistência de um projeto educacional em curso técnico profissionalizante, sustentado por ideologias da racionalidade técnica e da economia do mercado econômico, vinculadas a uma noção de linguagem concebida como estrutura e de texto como uma verdade única e universal. Nas situações dialógicas de construção do conhecimento nos eventos da aula, os docentes de disciplinas específicas concebem a leitura/escrita como atividades objetivas de reconhecimento/identificação de conteúdos científicos, através de textos didatizados identificados como apostilas. Ao solicitar a produção escrita nos gêneros acadêmicos ―resumo‖, ―relato‖ e ―trabalho de pesquisa‖ pela mediação de textos de divulgação científica ampla e restrita, os professores utilizam procedimentos instrucionais inespecíficos, supondo que o aluno é um leitor capaz de reconstituir a intenção dos autores nos textos que leem, informados apenas pela dimensão linguística. Ao produzirem as paráfrases dos textos lidos, os alunos ficam impedidos de se constituir como voz autorizada para dizer a sua palavra e construir um novo propósito para o seu projeto de textualização.

[pt] Este trabalho estuda o uso do metadiscurso em artigos pesquisa em diferentes culturas, áreas disciplinares e seções do artigo, tendo como objetivo investigar como esse recurso retórico varia em contextos lingüísticos e sócio-culturais diversos, contribui para a construção de sentido de textos escritos e reflete a construção de conhecimento em diferentes áreas disciplinares. A pesquisa adota como base teórica a abordagem sociointeracional de linguagem, a teoria da construção social do conhecimento e princípios da retórica contrastiva. O corpus utilizado compõe-se de 24 artigos científicos, divididos em duas línguas (português e inglês), duas áreas disciplinares (Ciências Biomédicas e Lingüística, Letras e Artes) e quatro seções (Introdução, Metodologia, Resultados e Discussão). O estudo da variação entre os textos escritos em inglês e português mostrou que há diferenças quanto ao uso de itens metadiscursivos que enfocam a micro ou a macroorganização do artigo de pesquisa. A variação interdisciplinar mostrou que o texto pode ser escrito de forma subjetiva ou objetiva, e que o conhecimento nas diferentes comunidades disciplinares pode ser construído com base em idéias ou fatos. Quanto às seções dos artigos, verificou-se que o uso do metadiscurso varia para alcançar objetivos retóricos diferenciados de acordo com a seção do artigo. Esta pesquisa reforça a possibilidade e necessidade de enfocar o metadiscurso e a linguagem sob uma ótica sociointeracional, confirmando que a escrita acadêmica é interativa e mostrando que a construção de sentidos de textos e a construção de conhecimento variam em diferentes culturas e comunidades disciplinares. / [en] This research studies the use of metadiscourse in research articles in different cultures, disciplinary areas and article sections, aiming at investigating how this rhetorical device varies in different linguistic and socio- cultural contexts, contributes to the construction of meaning in written texts and reflects the construction of knowledge in different disciplinary areas. This work adopts as theoretical basis a sociointeractional approach to language, the theory of social construction of knowledge and principles of contrastive rhetoric. The research corpus is composed of 24 scientific articles, divided into two languages (Portuguese and English), two disciplinary areas (Biomedical Sciences and Linguistics, Letters and Arts), and four sections (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion). The study of variation between texts written in English and Portuguese shows that there are differences in the use of metadiscourse items which can focus on micro or macroorganization of the scientific article. Interdisciplinary variation shows that scientific texts can be written either in a subjective or objective manner, and that knowledge construction in different disciplinary communities can be based either on ideas or facts. As to research article sections, this study shows that the use of metadiscourse varies according to writers´ intention to reach rhetorical objectives in each section. This research study reinforces both the possibility and necessity to focus on metadiscourse and language under a sociointeractional perspective, confirming that academic writing is interactive, and showing that the construction of meaning in texts and the construction of knowledge vary in different cultures and disciplinary communities.

(in English): The diploma thesis explores the means of expressing interpersonal function (metadiscourse) in English academic lectures. This function includes means mitigating the proposition of authors (hedges), expressions boosting its credibility (booster), instances reflecting attitude of the author (attitude markers) and means referring to both, the author himself (self-mentions) and the audience (engagement markers). For the purpose of the analysis, the integrative approach of Ken Hyland was chosen. It explores interpersonal resources as well as interactive resources in written academic discourse. Means organizing text into an intelligible and comprehensible unit will be also studied. The excerpted instances of metadiscourse were examined with respect to their function and realization form. In a case of realization forms, we expected to find means expressing modality (modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives), evaluative adjectives and adverbs, conjunctions and an array of personal pronouns referring to the participants of lectures. The findings showed surprising deviations in the categories of boosters, extended frame markers and attitude markers. Remaining categories, despite the different mode of the data (spoken academic language) corresponded with Hyland's findings from written academic discourse.

Dans le contexte actuel de réformes des programmes de langue française à l’Université Libanaise, les institutions franco-libanaises se repositionnent pour améliorer la formation des enseignants du secteur public. Dans ce cadre, cette recherche s’attache à proposer un programme linguistique conçu à partir d’une ingénierie pédagogique de type FOS. Elle vise à améliorer le niveau de langue des enseignants de mathématiques bilingues pour offrir à l’Éducation de Base publique (cycle primaire) des maîtres d’école capables de communiquer efficacement en français et par conséquent de contribuer à améliorer le niveau de français de leurs élèves. À ce titre, la première phase de cette étude consiste à définir les enjeux politiques et institutionnels liés à la mise en œuvre d’un programme sur mesure. Ensuite, à travers l’analyse des besoins langagiers d’une part, et d’un corpus filmé, transcrit et enrichi d’observations d’autre part, nous étudions les pratiques langagières et examinons les fonctions de la parole enseignante. Cette étude convoque les outils conceptuels de l’analyse des discours et de la pragmatique linguistique. Un regard croisé sur les analyses a permis de dégager des objectifs didactiques spécifiques inscrits dans une perspective interventionniste. Les principales propositions prônent une didactisation de l’alternance codique et ciblent des tâches professionnelles prioritaires telles qu’exposer une démarche pour calculer, animer en français un cours de mathématiques et utiliser les manuels dans l’enseignement/apprentissage de cette discipline.Finalement, une offre de formation complète ainsi qu’une évaluation sur mesure sont conçues et doivent être intégrées à un dispositif de formation continue dispensé à la faculté de pédagogie de l’Université Libanaise. / In the current context of reforms of French language programs at the Lebanese University, the Franco-Lebanese institutions reposition themselves to improve the training of public school teachers. In this context, this research aims to offer a linguistic program designed from an educational engineering French for Specific Purposes type. It aims to improve the level of language of bilingual mathematics teachers in order to offer for public Basic Education (primary school) teachers that are able to communicate effectively in French therefore helping to improve the students' level of French. As such, the first phase of this study is to define the political and institutional issues related to the implementation of customized program. Then, through the analysis of the language needs on one hand, and analyzing a corpus that is filmed, transcribed and enriched of observations on the other hand, we will study the language practices and will examine the functions of teaching discourse. This study convenes the conceptual tools of discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics. A fresh perspective on an analysis has identified specific learning objectives enshrined in an interventionist perspective. The main didactic proposals advocates a didactization of code switching and targets professional priority tasks as exposing an approach to calculate, animating a French mathematics course and using textbooks in the teaching / learning of this discipline. Finally, a complete training offer and a customized assessment are designed and must be integrated into an in-service training provided to the Education Faculty of the Lebanese University.

CARIOCA, Cláudia Ramos. A evidencialidade em textos acadêmicos de grau do português brasileiro contemporâneo. 2009. 201f. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2009. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-13T14:30:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tess_CRCarioca.pdf: 1197726 bytes, checksum: 1bd42e1dded668aa6f2f1d4f1975201c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-09-25T23:42:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tess_CRCarioca.pdf: 1197726 bytes, checksum: 1bd42e1dded668aa6f2f1d4f1975201c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-25T23:42:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tess_CRCarioca.pdf: 1197726 bytes, checksum: 1bd42e1dded668aa6f2f1d4f1975201c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Evidentiality is a linguistic category related to the source of informations and also to strategies of commitment degrees of the author with these informations. With the intent of investigating the manifestation of that category in the construction of academic degree works in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, this research aims to: a) re-discuss the status of evidentiality as a linguistic category; b) analyze the relations between modality and evidentiality; c) examine the strategies employed in the use of evidentiality marks in the monographs, dissertations and theses; d) identify, describe and analyze the evidential linguistic marks in the scientific works in focus; e) relate the use of evidentials to strategies for compromise effect in textual construction. By identifying and interpreting the evidential marks in the construction of academic texts, this research seeks to contribute to express explicitly the meaning effects linked to the transmitting of information strategically, since these marks are used for diverse purposes, such as resorting to the so-called "authority argument”, attenuation of liability in relation to what is said, modalization in the continuum between certainty and non-certainty, suggesting a degree of commitment in relation to the truth of the proposition, also a critical positioning in relation to the proposition. This analysis, guided by functionalist assumptions, has a theoretical dimension, aimed at re-discussion of the conceptual boundaries between modality and evidentiality categories, and an analytical dimension, which, in constant dialogue with the theory, researches in a qualitative and quantitative way the use of evidentiality marks in monographs, dissertations and theses. The choice of these text genres for the corpus constitution is justified by the assumption that they present a greater amount of information whose source is not the author himself, conditioning the use of evidentiality marks in the observable relationship with the degree of commitment of the author related to the information conveyed. The acquisition of 1500 instances for this research came true from the organization of a corpus consisting of thirty academic degree (ten monographs, ten dissertations and ten theses), which was used as a cut-off for analysis: introduction, one chapter of theoretical discussions and conclusion. Data were analyzed according to these categories: the type of mark evidential (lexical or grammar item – verb, noun, adjective, adverb, preposition; metadiscursive statement, simple juxtaposition, quotatives marks of ABNT) and the position of such mark in relation to source (before, between, after); b) the types of concepts characteristic of the evidential semantics are described, the source of information (the utterer, defined external source, undefined external source, common domain); the evidential access (direct, less direct, undirect); the nature of evidential information (subjective, experiential, inferential, reported); c) the pragmatical and discursive aspects, that is, the effects of meaning associated with the construction of the arguments in that concerns to the expression of high, medium or low commitment to what is being reported. In three genres of academic degree, the low commitment was more frequent and the differences between high and low commitment is nearly the same in these genres. Regarding to semantic aspects, the external, indirect and reported source was the most frequent, explicit by dicendi verbs, that appear between the source and the contend asserted. / A evidencialidade é uma categoria linguística que diz respeito à fonte das informações veiculadas e, nessa indicação, está também relacionada com estratégias de (des) comprometimento do enunciador com tais informações. No intuito de investigar a manifestação dessa categoria na construção dos trabalhos acadêmicos de grau do português brasileiro contemporâneo, a pesquisa objetiva: a) rediscutir o estatuto da evidencialidade como categoria linguística; b) analisar as relações entre modalidade e evidencialidade; c) verificar as estratégias utilizadas no uso das marcas de evidencialidade nas monografias, dissertações e teses; d) identificar, descrever e analisar as marcas linguísticas evidenciais nos trabalhos científicos em foco; e) relacionar o uso de evidenciais com estratégias para efeito de (des)comprometimento na construção textual. Ao identificar e interpretar as marcas evidenciais na construção dos textos acadêmicos, a pesquisa busca contribuir para a explicitação dos efeitos de sentido vinculados à veiculação das informações de forma estratégica, já que essas marcas são utilizadas com propósitos diversificados, como, por exemplo, o recurso ao chamado “argumento de autoridade”, a atenuação da responsabilidade em relação ao que é dito, a modalização no contínuo entre a certeza e a não-certeza, sugerindo um grau de comprometimento em relação à verdade da proposição, bem como um posicionamento crítico em relação a ela. A análise, orientada por pressupostos funcionalistas, conta com uma dimensão teórica, voltada para a rediscussão dos limites conceituais entre as categorias modalidade e evidencialidade; e uma dimensão analítica, que, em constante diálogo com a teoria, investiga, qualitativa e quantitativamente, o uso de marcas da evidencialidade nas monografias, dissertações e teses. A escolha desses gêneros textuais para a constituição do corpus justifica-se pela suposição de que apresentam uma maior quantidade de informação cuja fonte não é o próprio autor, o que condiciona o uso das marcas de evidencialidade na relação observável com o grau de comprometimento do produtor relativamente à informação veiculada. A obtenção das 1500 ocorrências para esta pesquisa concretizou-se a partir da organização de um corpus constituído por trinta trabalhos acadêmicos de grau (dez monografias, dez dissertações e dez teses), dos quais foi utilizado um recorte como material de análise, selecionando-se a introdução, um capítulo de fundamentação teórica e a conclusão. Os dados obtidos foram analisados segundo as seguintes categorias: a) os meios linguísticos de expressão da evidencialidade no discurso acadêmico que envolve a produção textual da monografia, da dissertação e da tese foram especificados em relação ao tipo de marca evidencial (item lexical ou gramatical - verbo, substantivo, adjetivo, advérbio, preposição; enunciado metadiscursivo, justaposição simples, normas citativas da ABNT; e à posição de tal marca em relação à fonte (anteposta, intercalada, posposta); b) os tipos de noções evidenciais caracterizadoras do aspecto semântico, a fonte da informação (sujeito-enunciador, fonte externa definida, fonte externa indefinida, domínio comum); o acesso evidencial (direto, menos direto, indireto); a natureza evidencial da informação (subjetiva, experiencial, inferencial, relatada); c) os aspectos pragmático-discursivos, ou seja, os efeitos de sentido na construção da argumentação relacionados à expressão do alto, médio ou baixo comprometimento com o que está sendo informado. Predominou, na construção dos três gêneros de trabalhos acadêmicos de grau, o efeito de baixo comprometimento, sendo a diferença entre alto e baixo comprometimento aproximadamente a mesma nos três gêneros. Quanto aos aspectos semânticos, predominou a fonte externa definida, indireta e relatada, manifestada por meio de verbos dicendi, que se intercalam entre a fonte e o conteúdo asseverado.

La presente ricerca, che si inserisce negli ambiti della pragmatica, della linguistica testuale e della linguistica applicata, analizza il fenomeno della mitigazione all’interno di un corpus di 25 articoli scientifici in italiano, con l’intento di comprendere meglio questo fenomeno pragmatico nel suo contesto di azione. Si cerca quindi di rispondere ad alcune domande riguardanti forme, funzioni e domini testuali della mitigazione. Per riuscire in ciò, si è elaborato un approccio pragmatico integrato, derivato dal modello tripartito di Caffi (2007), basato sulla nozione di scope (contenuto proposizionale, dimensione illocutiva e origine deittica dell’enunciato), e dalla lunga tradizione di studi di stampo funzionalista. Si presentano quindi i primi risultati di questa ricerca originale, sia da un punto di vista qualitativo sia qualitativo. Infine, tale ricerca investiga alcune possibili implicazioni per l’insegnamento dell’italiano LS in ambito accademico, offrendo a quanti coinvolti nell’insegnamento, sia in qualità di ricercatori che di insegnanti, alcune prime conclusioni, strumenti e risorse immediatamente utilizzabili per la progettazione di percorsi formativi volti allo sviluppo di sensibilità testuali e di genere e di abilità come quella di scrittura accademica, definibili comunicative, accademiche e transferable, , abilità cruciali per qualunque studente universitario che intenda completare con successo il proprio percorso di studi. / This research, framed into the domain of pragmatics, textual linguistics and applied linguistics, aims to analyse mitigation phenomena within a 25 Italian RA’s corpus, to contribute to a better comprehension of these phenomenon in its context of action. More in details, this work attempts to answers to some questions regarding forms, functions and text domains of mitigation. In order to do so, an integrated pragmatic approach was elaborated, derived from Caffi’s tripartite model (2007), based on the notion of scope (propositional content, illocutionary dimension and deictic origin), and on the tradition of literature in a functionalist perspective. The first results of this original investigation, both qualitative and quantitative, will be presented. Furthermore, this research investigates some possible implications in the domain of Italian as FL teaching, and some potential implementations. It provides then, to those involved in teaching Italian LS in academic context, as both teacher and researcher, some first conclusions, tools and resources immediately expendable to design language formation paths, meant to develop textual and genre sensibility as well as competences and skills, like academic writing, defined communicative, academic and transferable, which are crucial for any kind of student to achieve success in their studies.

Academic writing is generally regarded as the most important communication medium through which people in the tertiary academic context choose to communicate their ideas. It is also well known that it is sometimes an arduous process for students to become accustomed to the requirements (the conventions and conditions) that hold for the production of appropriate written texts in this context. The initial impetus for the current study was provided by what appeared to be a significant problem that some supervisors at the University of Pretoria identified in terms of the academic writing ability of their postgraduate students. This study therefore investigates postgraduate academic writing with regard to a number of such issues, and does so within the broader confines of academic literacy. The ultimate purpose of this investigation is to discover how writing interventions may be designed that offer appropriate assistance to students who experience difficulty with their writing. The study commences with an attempt to find support for treating 'academic discourse' as a potentially productive area of academic enquiry. It therefore presents an account on the nature of a 'discourse community', and attempts to ascertain whether there are any grounds on which 'academic discourse' may be regarded as a unique type of discourse used for specific communicative functions in the tertiary academic environment. It further discusses critically some of the traditional features of academic texts. The research then proposes thirteen design principles that serve as injunctions that should be considered in the development of writing courses, and proceeds to a critical discussion of the most important approaches in the teaching and learning of writing. What is evident from this discussion is that none of the historical approaches will, on their own, enable one to design justifiable writing courses. As a result, an eclectic approach is required in order to integrate the strengths of these approaches into a strategy for writing course design that is theoretically and practically justifiable. Subsequently, the critical interpretation of the literature in the first part of the study is used in the design of a framework for writing course design in tertiary education. This framework consists of six focuses that stand in a relationship of dynamic interaction towards a description of the context in which tertiary students write. Thus, relevant aspects concerning the writer, text, reader, institutional context and one's approach to writing are all essential elements that should be carefully considered in terms of their potential influence on the eventual design of materials that will constitute a writing course. The rest of the study consists of an application of the proposed framework that addresses firstly, the perceptions of supervisors at the University about the academic literacy ability of their postgraduate students, as well as their requirements for academic writing. It then proceeds to an investigation of a specific group of students' (from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences) perceptions about their own academic literacy ability and a determination of their perceptions and expectations of academic writing at university. Because the information that was collected (by means of questionnaires) in both cases mentioned above is mainly perceptual in nature, it was considered essential to determine the academic literacy ability of students in the study group by means of a reliable testing instrument. A written text that these same students produced was further analysed in order to establish possible writing difficulties they experienced. In addition, it was important to confirm certain findings from the supervisor questionnaire, and more specific information had to be collected on particular writing issues that could inform discipline specific writing course design (this was accomplished through focus group interviews with supervisors of the School of Agricultural and Food Sciences). A combination of all the prominent findings of the empirical work mentioned above, as well as insights gained in the literature survey, is then used to make justifiable suggestions for the design of writing course materials for students in the study group. Finally, a number of issues were identified that could not be addressed by this study and, therefore, suggestions are made for future research that may investigate these matters. / Thesis (DPhil ( Linguistics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Unit for Academic Literacy / DPhil / Unrestricted