Interlocutory Dialogism and Construction of Authorship in Scientific Papers

Abstract

Understanding that the interlocutor to whom one enunciates plays an essential role in the stylistic choices of the subject who speaks / writes, from everyday conversation to a scientific treatise, we examined, in this research, the construction of authorship in scientific writing, aiming to identify and analyze forms of interlocutory dialogism as marks of construction of the authorial voice of the researcher subject in the writing of scientific papers. The theoretical assumptions of the dialogical approach of Bakhtin’s language circle, in dialogue with research of scholars discussing scientific writing, constitute our central theoretical anchorage. The examination of the 10 scientific papers collected in annals of one of the events of the Brazilian Association of Linguistics, which constitute the corpus of the investigation, was guided by the interpretative approach and the qualitative approach of the research. The analysis of the collected articles allowed us to identify a variety of marks that indicate the intense dialogues that the writers hold with their interlocutors in the construction of the saying. The interpretation of the identified marks indicates that the writers guides and orchestrates their act of saying in the horizon of reactions, expectations, judgments and appreciations of their interlocutors, configuring, thus, an authorial construction that takes place in a strongly marked way by the dimension of interlocutory dialogism.