Abstract:Like I think in English, (eu) acho
que in Brazilian Portuguese can function as a discourse marker (DM)
with more than one meaning, and these meanings are curiously diametrically
opposed. Certainty, doubt or uncertainty is inferred by hearers in an
interactional context. In a sample of audio-video recorded interviews, the
occurrences of this DM were classified by meaning, and association tests between
meanings and linguistic factors (pronoun realization, polarity, position in
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