Argumentation by ethos on possible scams through email

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Welton Pereira e
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Santos, Larissa Ribeiro dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EID&A - Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Integrados em Discurso e Argumentação
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.uesc.br/index.php/eidea/article/view/4094

This paper aims to present the results of an analysis regarding the construction of ethos as an argumentation strategy in possible scams applied through email. Ten unsolicited emails were analyzed, five of national origin and five of international origin, all published in Portuguese. The analysis was based on the Semiolinguistic Theory of Discourse (Charaudeau, 2008; 2015; 2016), making use of some postulates from Forensic Linguistics (Shuy, 2005; XXXX). We realized that the ethos of competence was the most used in the corpus, corresponding to 50.9% of the occurrences, since the simulated communication situation corresponded, most of the time, to an interaction between the representative of an institution and the recipient, the possible victim. We understand that the results can be used in the Portuguese language classroom, leading students to recognize the misleading nature of these texts through their linguistic-discursive and argumentative characteristics.