The main purpose of this paper is to describe future verb forms in articulation with the discursive functioning of the genre in which they manifest themselves. We focus on verb forms which enable the expression of present future in the news with interview radio genre. We describe the structure of this genre in terms of its strategic devices (DIJK, 1990, 2010) which aim at increasing the factual perception of broadcast information. The strategic elaboration of news with interview implies not only that the mode of presentation of information is schematically conceived in order to favor interaction, but also that such discursive structuring prompts linguistic elaboration of the information content. Our investigation enables us to observe that present future forms can be discursively described and distributed due to the three different prospective events in which they manifest themselves: scheduled events, events involving the ongoing interaction, and procedural events. Besides, the present study demonstrates the feasibility of establishing a relationship between discourse genre and verb expression for the reason that some forms of futurity, such as progressive periphrastic future, are favored by discursive practices, such as news with interview.
Present Future; Discourse Genre; News with Interview; Strategic Structuring
