A teoria da argumentação na análise dos conectores discursivos.

Abstract

This paper analyses Spanish and Portuguese connectives in the framework of the Argumentation’s Theory (J.C. Anscombre & O. Ducrot, among others). Connectives are the subtype of discourse markers that specializes in signaling the argumentative relations of addition, opposition and causality between statements.L’argumentation dans la langue (Anscombre & Ducrot 1983) analyses the relations between statements and their connectives from conditions such as the force, the scales or the polyphony. Thus, Spanish and Portuguese languages have connectives that introduce the stronger statement for a final conclusion (sin embargo/no entanto –however-), or place their statement in a certain level of an argumentative scale (incluso / inclusive, sobretudo –even-), or introduce polyphonic statements, such as the ironic ones (y eso que, eso sí, más bien).