The rhetorical organization of an opinion article from a functionalist perspective

Authors

  • Gessélda Somavilla Farencena Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a17

Keywords:

rhetoric organization, argumentation, language achievement, opinion article

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the argumentative rhetoric organizing an opinion article and its linguistic realization from the application of analysis categories of the Rhetoric Structure Theory - RST (Mann; Thompson, 1985; Taboada; Mann, 2006), the Systemic Functional Grammar (Halliday; Matthiessen, 2004, 2014) and the Appraisal System (Martin; White, 2005). The macro-structural organization is constituted by the Block I, the title, which functions as Block II’ satellite, corresponding to the core. Block II is made up of portions 02 to 04, wherein the portion equivalent to 02 Claim; the portion 03, the Evidence; the portion 04, the Appeal.

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Published

2016-10-01

How to Cite

Somavilla Farencena, G. (2016). The rhetorical organization of an opinion article from a functionalist perspective. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (1), 397–415. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a17

Issue

No. 1 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

Section

Articles

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