The role of the connective aliás in the articulation of arguments and in the construction of identity images

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Gustavo Ximenes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/512
• topic: conector aliás; argumentação; debate eleitoral.; connective aliás; argumentation; electoral debate

The language is an object of diversified analysis, with points of view based on In this study, we investigated the uses of the connective aliás in the last electoral debate of the campaign for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, which took place in 2018. In the debate, we identified eleven occurrences of the connective. We investigated the role of these eleven occurrences in the articulation and hierarchy of arguments, in the defense of points of view and in the construction of images (faces) by the candidates. As a theoretical framework, we follow the perspective of the Enunciation Semantics (or integrated pragmatics). In the debate, we identified two uses of the connective, one in which it introduces a supplementary argument and another in which it introduces a correction or rectification. In both uses, the connective, indicating enunciative rupture between the arguments, plays a strategic role. Using the connective, the speaker attributes different degrees of importance to the arguments, grading the breadth of his target audience, as well as saving himself from attacks, correcting himself.