The enunciative responsibility in text of media scientific popularization

Abstract This paper aims to reveal marks of (non) assumption of enunciative responsibility in a scientific popularization report published in the magazine Superinteressante. The investigation is based on Textual Analysis of Discourse (TAD), specifically on the notion of enunciative responsibility (ADAM, 2011), as well as on the postulates of Guentchèva (1994, 1996) about the mediative and on the premises of Charaudeau (2016) on science mediatization. This study seeks to understand which representations of the discourse of others are constructed, which make the speaker/enunciator accomplish certain purposes that are specific of the communication context in which he/she is inserted. Three segmented fragments of the report are analyzed, in order to describe the way in which the voices are presented and represented in the text. Even though the text examined does not have an argumentative purpose and contrasting points of view are presented in the report, the analysis reveals that the speaker expresses different degrees of engagement in relation to another point of view, which indicates his/her positioning about contents attributed to third parties.