O sistema de encaixamento nos editoriais

Abstract

The object of this work is embedded clause. Thus, restrictive relative clauses, traditionally known as adjectives, nominal completive nouns, objective ones introduced by verbs other than mental and verbal, subjective and predicative nouns, as well as comparative and consecutive adverbials will be analysed. Considering their use in the editorial genre, embedded clauses will be investigated from a systemic-functional perspective (HALLIDAY and MATTHIESSEN, 2014) based on the hypothesis that they tend to be placed as face protection discursive maneuvers in newspaper editorials, since this genre is not constituted as a text of explicit persuasion. In this way, with the objective of verifying this characteristic, it will be analyzed if only one group or all the embedded clauses would camouflage the position of the writer in different moments of the text. The study of these prayers was based on a corpus formed by editorials from the Folha de São Paulo website. The survey and analysis of the occurrences revealed that the nominal post-modifiers, except those linked to nouns derived from adjectives and adverbs, such as those related to the latter two classes, contributed to the protection of the writer's face, an essential criterion for maintaining of the cultural context of the genre under analysis. In this way, the importance of such structures was proven to guarantee the mandate that the Folha reader grants to the newspaper