A organização retórica de artigos de opinião na imprensa e no jornal escolar

Abstract

In this research, we examine the rhetorical organization of the genre articleof opinion from students’ school newspaper, opposing it to the article of opinion of the press, as well as the contained argumentative process in this genre as factor of influence in the distribution of its rhetorical units. For theexamination of the rhetorical organization of the information in opinionarticles, we use as parameter the model developed by Swales (1990) for the analysis of research article introductions, but for the examination of theargumentative process in this genre, we take as base the proposal of Boissinot (1992), directed to the examination of the argumentative text. We analyse a consisting corpus of forty units of divided articles of opinion in two groups: twenty articles of opinion produced by the press and twenty articles of opinion produced by students from high school. In the proceede danalysis, both of the groups of opinion articles had been submitted the exercises of segmentation for description of its rhetorical organization. The results had evidenced that, although the articles present a typical standard of rhetorical organization for distribution of the information in this genre, they present a certain similarity, in reference to its composition in four rhetorical units. As for the contained argumentative process in this genre, the analysis of the data disclosed that, in both of the groups of opinion articles, this process influences functionally in the distribution of those units, more recurrent considered rhetorical subunits in this genre. Comparatively, the results point that the argumentative structure of the expositive trend text (TAE) is the one that more prevails in articles of opinion of students. As for the articles of opinion of the press, these results disclose the presence of a more complex argumentative project, since in these the argumentative structure attributed prevails to the dialogical trend text (TAD).