Oração principal: dos bastidores gramaticais à cena discursiva

Abstract

Studying and systematizing the regularities of grammatical categories are functions attributable to any grammar. However, combining these regularities with possible meaningful and / or pragmatic values mapped from the relations and choices operated between the categories is a function of a linguistic current, the functionalism. In this sense, functional grammar covers a series of demands of the uses of language: predication, referencing, junction, grammaticalization and modulation, among others. This paper seeks this theoretical support to observe certain uses of main clauses within what is usually called modalization or compromise marks in printed vehicle reader letters of media communication - Veja Magazine. The choice of the main clause, in this way, is due to the fact that it is a category not explored in compendia and, moreover, because the attribution of meaning to this category suggests a useful work with argumentative linguistic sequences in reading and textual production