Types of topic sequencing in Textual-Interactive Grammar

• Autor(a) principal: Penhavel, Eduardo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Garcia, Aline Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fórum Linguístico
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/1984-8412.2017v14n1p1792

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2017v14n1p1792This paper is developed within the theoretical framework of Textual-Interactive Grammar and it focuses on the process of Topic Organization, which is one of the text construction processes studied within that approach. A specific part of the process of Topic Organization is analyzed, namely the topic sequencing process, which concerns the concatenation of the units called “minimal Topic Segments”. The discussion addresses the typology of topic sequencing strategies proposed by Jubran (2006), in order to evaluate to what extent her classification is adequate for the analysis of genres that are different from the one initially considered in her proposal. In this respect, the purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the typology proposed by the author is in fact adequate for the analysis of a broader variety of genres. Yet, it is also argued that such typology should incorporate a few specific categories to increase its descriptive power.