Studies about fictivity consider that certain linguistic expressions are only indirectly related to their meant referents; and that unreal scene is often presented by language users as means of mental access to the real scene. By overlapping cognitive and interactional frames, the fictive self-quotation phenomenon (ROCHA, 2004, 2006) is a discursive type of fictivity, by which conceptualisers pose a subjectifying assessing perspective to the direct speech in the first person. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse fictive self-quotation and its factive co-extension in oral corpora of European and Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the construction "(I) said X-clause". As for the data, the C-ORAL-ROM Portuguese corpus (BACELAR DO NASCIMENTO et al., 2005), the C-ORAL Brazilian corpus (RASO & MELLO, 2010, 2012), and a database from the reality show Big Brother Brasil (2002) are used, all of which subjected to electronic data processing tools. The results present meaningful conceptual and diaphasic contrasts between the uses of "disse" and "falei" in the national varieties, since the verb "falar" is not often used to build a reported speech corresponding to mental space in the European Portuguese and that, from a constructional standpoint, certain interactional frames seem to favour fictive self-quotation more promptly.
Self-quotation; Fictivity; Cognitive Linguistcs; Corpus Linguistcs
