Modalization in Religious Discursive Controversy

Abstract

Our research is based on a corpus of radio broadcasts dealing with religious topics. This allows us to describe and analyze the discourse articulated by both specialists and non-specialists in the field, focusing on the pragmatic and semantic processes of this interactional debate that shape the speakers who co-construct a spontaneous conversation within different contexts of enunciation. Our interest in modality stems from the view that a modal category only acquires meaning within its overall context. From this perspective, it seemed inevitable, initially, to consider the field of modality as a whole in order to arrive at a classification by category.