Investigating the Role of Pragmatic Connectives in Journalistic Textual Genres

Bibliographic Data

ID16884635
AuthorsJanice Helena Chaves Marinho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Gustavo Ximenes Cunha (0000-0001-9953-1204, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Year2018
Volume18
Issue3
Pages545-563
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguagem em (Dis)curso (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1518-7632 • E-ISSN: 1982-4017
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1982-4017-180306-12717
OpenAlexW2903206120
SCIELO_PIDS1518-76322018000300545
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This paper examines the use of pragmatic connectives in journalistic texts, aiming at understanding issues involved in discourse articulation. The data we are working on is composed by opinion texts and news (written in Brazilian Portuguese) produced by proficient writers and published in a diary newspaper. Based on the Modular Approach to Discourse Analysis, we assume that the study of pragmatic connectives must be integrated in a global model of the complexity of the discourse organization. Thus, we present the description of the relational organization form of these texts, since this organization form deals with discursive relations as well as with the contributions of pragmatic connectives to their interpretation. Then, through the description of the relational organization of these texts, we discuss the observable differences between the genres through the use of pragmatic connective

Contextualization · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Linguistics and Education Research · Philosophy

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