From the perspective of the Relevance Theory, an utterance is considered “relevant” to the extent that its positive cognitive effects are large and the mental processing effort is small. Taken that news headlines may be designed to optimize relevance, as well as to promote newsworthiness and sensationalism, the central aim of this study is to analyze Brazilian news headlines in an attempt to associate some tene...
The objective of this paper is to obtain a better characterization, both formal and functional, of a structural property of discourse: the subordinate exchange of clarification. Based on theoretical contributions from the Geneva School, we seek to deepen the understanding, pointed out in Cunha (2019a), that the opening of a subordinate exchange of clarification is a resource that one of the speakers uses it to ...
The objective of this paper is to obtain a better characterization, both formal and functional, of a structural property of discourse: the subordinate exchange of clarification. Based on theoretical contributions from the Geneva School, we seek to deepen the understanding, pointed out in Cunha (2019a), that the opening of a subordinate exchange of clarification is a resource that one of the speakers uses it to ...
This study investigates the role of instances of nominalizations as topic organizers in a corpus consisting of the introductory part of five academic papers in the Area of Applied Social Sciences. With the theoretical and methodological framework of Modular Discourse Analysis, this research was carried out in two stages. The first phase consisted of the analysis of the informational structure of the papers. The...
Pesquisadores contemporâneos da im/polidez têm apontado limitações nas abordagens tradicionais do fenômeno, como, por exemplo, a ausência de uma concepção interacional da im/polidez e a utilização do ato de fala como unidade de análise. Na busca por superar essas limitações, esses pesquisadores têm procurado, dentre outras ações, investigar as funções comunicativas das estratégias de im/ polidez em ambientes in...
In this work, we compare the way narrators build up images of themselves in testimonials conveyed in two editions, a Brazilian and a French one, by Marie Claire Magazine. The Brazilian and French statements were published in 2017 and address the theme regarding this work. In order to reach the goal, we compare the way the narrators represent or enact the views of different enunciators, having as a basis Rabatel...
The central aim of this study is to analyze the use of nominalizations in official guides produced by state regulatory agencies. The study is grounded on the assumption that, in written discourse, especially in the official realm, the use of nominalizations is conditioned by the discursive domain, which, in turn, frames the need for more specific investigation. We analyzed 10 guides produced by Brazilian regula...
This article aims to situate, in a theoretical framework, these notions: discourse genres, context, types of discourse and discursive sequences. The paper adopts a socio-interactionist perspective of language studies and seeks contributions from the Modular Approach to Discourse Analysis. We start from the hypothesis that, throughout an interaction, two orders of restrictions regulate the way in which the inter...
Neste trabalho, o objetivo é investigar as relações entre a situação de ação e a construção conjunta do discurso pelos interlocutores. Para alcançar esse objetivo, procedo a um estudo contrastivo de dois discursos bastante diferentes: a crônica Conversinha mineira, de Fernando Sabino, e o debate eleitoral promovido pela Rede Globo entre Dilma Rousseff e Aécio Neves, no segundo turno da campanha presidencial de ...
In this paper, we start from studies examining the role of the connective expression naverdade in order to show that this expression has an importante performance in the way the speaker represents, in his speech, other speeches or other voices. Adopting the Geneva Model of discourse analysis as theoretical and methodological framework, we study the role of this expression in the polyphonic organization form of ...