Orações relativas: estratégias de posicionamento no gênero notícia

Abstract

This work has as object the relative subordinate clauses, traditionally called subordinate adjective. Considering its job at the news textual genre, this structure is analyzed under the systemic-functional perspective on the assumption that these constructs, in many cases, would take the place of the adverbial subordinate clauses and, therefore, would express circumstantial contents, allowing the journalist to interact in a convenient way in society without violating the contracts established by the news genre. The study of the relative clauses was based on a corpus made up of news site G1 that cover politics and economy during the Government of President Dilma Rousseff, besides information regarding the charges made by the justice to former president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and his lawyers' defense. The survey and analysis of the contribution of these constructions have revealed instances for the indication of the structures on circumstantial as achievements of ideational metaphors. Thus, once these structures encapsulate the position of the journalist in relation to the stated fact, that is, the argumentativity, socially, denied to the news genre, proved the importance of such constructions in this genre