As relações textuais como recursos para a episteme-em-ação: estudo da dimensão epistêmica de uma entrevista com presidenciável

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the role of textual relations (argument, counter-argument, preparation, reformulation, etc.) in the epistemic dimension of interaction. For this, we articulate the theoretical-methodological contributions of two interactionist approaches: the studies on the epistemic dimension developed in Conversation Analysis, and the studies on textual relations and their markers developed in the scope of Pragmatics of discourse. The corpus studied was the interview given in 2022 by the then presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to the Jornal Nacional, a news program on Rede Globo, in the context of the electoral campaign. Due to the breadth of the theme, we focused on the role of the textual relations of preparation and counter-argument present in the turns in which the interviewers ask questions. In these turns, these textual relations are procedures with which the interviewers hierarchize information, as well as the epistemic stances (K+, K-) materialized in the way this information is expressed.Because of these procedures, the structure of the question turn can impact the development of the sequence by the interviewee, who can accept or contest the proposed hierarchy, as well as the assumption, by the interviewer, of epistemic stances.