A voz média como estratégia de isenção de responsabilidade

Abstract

From a functional perspective, grammar is the codification of semantic and pragmatic values ??in which the speaker's communicative intention comes into play (GIVÓN, 1993). The voice category is a discursive strategy to focus or defocus a particular participant. In the middle voice, the agent is totally out of focus. The purpose of this article is to analyze the middle voice as a strategy to avoid responsibility by defocusing the agent. Therefore, it investigates whether the trigger of the process, although not present in the medial clause, is present in the context or can be identified. The results show that, in the middle voice, the trigger of the process, when present in the context, is predominantly abstract or internal, which allows its use as a strategy to avoid responsibility.