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This study aims to investigate the pragmatic-discursive functions of the marker "né?" from the perspective of (inter)subjectivity (Traugott, 2003, 2010, 2022). The corpus selected for analysis is the episode Limites da Paternidade ft Jorge from the podcast É Tempo de Morangos. In contexts of informal interviews and spontaneous conversation, such as the dialogue established between host Bruna Martiolli and her father, Jorge, the use of discourse markers proves essential for guiding the interlocutor's interpretation and managing interpersonal and affective relationships. This research adopts a mixed-methods approach using real speech data, grounded in the assumptions of Usage-Centered Functional Linguistics (UCFL) (Cunha; Bispo; Silva, 2013; Lacerda; Oliveira, 2015; Rosário; Oliveira, 2016; Rosário, 2022) in articulation with studies on discourse markers in Brazilian Portuguese (Marcuschi, 1986, 2010; Oliveira Neto, 1999; Nascimento, 2010; Freitag; Silva; Evangelista, 2017). The research is organized into the following stages: selection and transcription of the episode, aiming to convert the audio into text while preserving marks of orality; and a quantitative survey of all occurrences (tokens) and variants (types) of the microconstruction, such as "não é?", "não é mesmo?", and "né?". Subsequently, in the qualitative analysis phase, the data were examined according to their contexts of occurrence. Regarding the observed results, the frequency analysis allowed the marker to be categorized into two distinct functions: the Consensus Marker, which reaffirms shared knowledge to ensure the flow of the topic, and the Response-Seeking Marker, which actively requests validation from the interlocutor.
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