Operadores argumentativos como construtores de sentido em editoriais de O Globo

Abstract

This research proposes a study of the editorial genre seen as an article that expresses the company's position facing journalistic issues that circulate in society. We will observe that the company's thinking is reinforced through the use of argumentative mechanisms, which may go "unnoticed", but are essential to establish the position of the newspaper, making us believe that, despite the "informative guise", that is, the simple emission of a fact, it intends to lead the reader to sharing the same point of view. We will discuss the main characteristics of journalism, emphasizing the concept of ideology and the function of it in the past to understand the present. We will also emphasize that the argument is intertwined to humans, since every language pursues, in its grammar, mechanisms to indicate the orientation of argumentative statements, which can target their meaning. The analysis was made based on the study of argumentative operators, taking into account, of course, that the process of constructing meaning from a text also involves understanding the socio-historical moment to understand the author s communicative purpose. Every text has a purpose and understanding this phenomenon is extremely beneficial because it means developing a social consciousness. The genres that are part of everyday life, such as editorials, chronicles, commercial letters and digests are indispensable in order to have critical readers, always emphasizing that knowledge of the world and, especially, of the native language, contribute to the achievement of this purpose