O marcador do discurso 'aliás' e suas possibilidades para a língua espanhola

Abstract

A brief analysis of texts in which the Portuguese discourse marker aliás is found allows us to conclude that there are at least two contexts in which this expression is used: as a rectification reformulative and as a digresser. From these preliminary observations, it seems, therefore, that it is a multifunctional marker, according to Martín Zorraquino and Portolés (1999) theory, in which the marker reaches different nuances or meaning effects depending on the context. In this paper, we analyze the possibilities for translation of the term aliás to Spanish. Therefore, we propose, at first, two statements of opinion articles extracted from Brazilian newspapers and two tweets posted on the social network twitter.com. Such statements were given to six speakers of Spanish as a foreign language (advanced level) and / or native Spanish speakers who speak Portuguese as a second language to do their Spanish version. In two of these statements, the marker was used in the context of reformulation and the other two, of digression. In a second step, we collated the data obtained from the productions of Spanish speakers in L1 and LE with the theoretical definition that describes the state of the question. Finally, we present some considerations about the translations of the discourse marker aliás to Spanish language and the difficulty of this correlation between languages.