A construção do sentido de contraste em editoriais: uma análise segundo a Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional

Abstract

To develop the abilities of reading and writing of students from Basic School, it is necessary a functional approach to work with language, giving them the possibility to think over linguistic resources to which they have access. In a functional grammar, ( ). A a language is interpreted as a system of meanings, accompanied by forms through which the meanings can be realized (HALLIDAY, 1994, xiv). In this paper, we present how different lexicogrammatical resources construct the value of contrast in editorials and we relate the use of those elements to the stages that build the genre and the process of persuasion. We selected forty (40) examples of editorials from different newspapers to prove the hypothesis that the genre functional goals influence the lexicogrammatical choices in the text. Therefore, through these texts, we attempted to show how the use of traditional structures like adversative and concessive clauses , and non-traditional ones like relative clauses , which represent the contrast sense, is associated to the communicative propose of genre, suggesting a more natural than arbitrary use of language.