Argumentação e suas estratégias discursivas: um estudo dos conectivos em português

Abstract

The objective presented herein is the analysis of connectives, linguistic tools for the establishment of linking within the sentences, from the Functional perspective, and representative of semantic values important in discursive terms. Thus, the theoretical bases of Text Linguistics and Linguistic Functionalism are considered. The corpus of analysis is composed of texts of the argumentative type, of the editorial genre, more specifically. For this reason, we analyze how these connectives (conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs ...) reveal important semantic marks that are considered true argumentative strategies by authors in their thematic intention and that also need to be recognized by the reader for a broad textual comprehension. This approach involves the analysis of cohesion and textual coherence and, therefore, it is also a proposal for the assessment of how texts are constituted in its inner texture, leading to the production of meaning. The texts analyzed were extracted from Veja newsmagazine s editorial, from the section called "Carta ao Leitor" ( Letter to the Reader ). The approaches highlight the connectives from the syntactic-semantic point of view as well as in relation to the pragmatic-discursive implications, and both aspects converge as the basis for understanding texts. We expect herein to provide blunt analyses which take into account the description, structuring and functioning of the Portuguese language, with the objective of collaborating in the scientific development of linguistic approaches