Purpose clauses and consecutive clauses: a study of the discursive aspects in the construction of argumentation

• Autor(a) principal: Marchon, Amanda Heiderich
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/445
• topic: Purpose Clauses. Consecutive Clauses. Argumentation. Discourse. Functionalism.; Cláusulas finais. Cláusulas consecutivas. Argumentação. Discurso. Funcionalismo.

This article investigates the impossibility of undertaking a linguistic analysis that dissociates the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. Under the theoretical perspective of Functionalism associated with concepts of Discourse Analysis and Argumentative Semantics, we will analyze discursive aspects of the final and consecutive hypothetical clauses in the construction of the argument. Specifically, we will discuss how these clauses are articulated, in Brazilian Portuguese in use, based on one of the aspects that contribute to the argumentative organization of the discourse, the circumstantial hypotaxis. In this sense, we will consider not only the microtextual level, based on the clauses, but also the macrotextual level, which represents the sociodiscursive imaginary regarding controversial themes, as well as the positions chosen by the enunciator in face of this questioning about the world. Based on the hypothesis that the hypothetical structures reveal an argumentative shade, twenty-four (24) opinion articles published by the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, in the Trends and Debates column, constituted the corpus of analysis of this research, from which were extracted one hundred and eighty-five (185) circumstantial hypothetical clauses.