Teoria da Argumentação na Língua e a construção de blocos semânticos: relações de sentido em um texto jornalístico

Abstract

The theme of this study is to systematize and apply some important concepts from Language Argumentation Theory (LAT), from Oswald Ducrot and his contributors (1988, 2002), mainly about the third moment of the theory: the theoretical model of semantic blocks. The focus of this study is on the meaning construction of the utterances presented in a journalistic text, in which we observe the argumentative relations they establish among themselves. In order to do that, we have, as the corpus of this study, a piece of news spread online by the newspaper Zero Hora on November 2nd 2016, which reveals that 57% of the Brazilian people agree with the sentence “a good thief is a dead thief”, having as its reference a Datafolha research carried out among August 1st and 5th of 2016. Our proposition is justified due to the precepts of the Semantic Blocks Theory (SBT) that can be used as a resource to facilitate and clarify the global meaning of the speech used on the news we are analyzing. That happens because the words are not taken isolated, not even in literal sense, but rather through the union with other words, utterances, paragraphs and by the range of argumentative possibilities preexisting within the language itself. Basing ourselves on the achieved results, we observe that the studies of Ducrot and Carel (2005) help to understand how a journalistic text works in a speech once the meaning is constructed, according to SBT, within itself and not in relation to the external fact.