A organização macroestrutural dos textos “você sabia que ..." da revista Ciência Hoje das crianças

Abstract

This research aims to study the macrostructural organization of scientific popularization articles published in the section Você Sabia (magazine Ciência Hoje das Crianças). The text plans of the articles were identified, relating their organization to the discursive aims. The investigation is based on the studies developed by Charaudeau (2008) about science mediatization and in the textualization model proposed by Adam (2008), maily the notion of text plan and the criteria of textual segmentation. The corpus was composed of 34 articles. As a result, it was observed the recurrence of a macrostructural organization composed mostly of four segments with distinct characteristics and functions in the textual composition.