Questão de Linguística — Análise do Discurso — UNIVALI 2025
LinguísticaAnálise do Discurso
- Código
- qg626642
- Banca
- UNIVALI
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 15
A semantics and pragmatics professor is conducting a workshop on euphemism, hedging, and evaluative language in academic discourse, using the influencer research article as illustrative material. The professor draws attention to expressions like "lesser-known side," "dark side" (in quotation marks), "unchecked influence," "unintended consequences," and "proactively." The professor explains how academic writers strategically employ evaluative lexis, metaphorical framing, and hedging devices to construct authoritative yet measured arguments about controversial topics. When discussing the pragmatic functions of these linguistic choices and their role in maintaining academic credibility while making strong claims about negative phenomena, particularly analyzing how quotation marks around "dark side" signal metalinguistic awareness and how adverbs like "proactively" carry implicit evaluative force, which statement demonstrates the most sophisticated understanding of semantic nuance and pragmatic functionality in academic discourse?
- AAcademic language must be entirely neutral and descriptive without any evaluative dimension; the presence of terms suggesting negative evaluation proves this text is opinion piece rather than legitimate research article.
- BThe quotation marks around "dark side" signal metaphorical usage while maintaining rhetorical impact; "proactively" carries positive evaluation; "lesser-known" provides appropriate hedging - these strategic choices enable strong critical arguments while maintaining academic credibility and register.
- CQuotation marks around "dark side" indicate the authors are directly quoting another source verbatim and have no other pragmatic function; evaluative language is accidental rather than strategic rhetorical choice in academic writing.
- DAll evaluative language should be eliminated from academic writing to maintain complete objectivity; terms like "dark side" represent unscientific emotional language inappropriate for scholarly discourse and undermine the research's credibility entirely.