A organização retórico-argumentativa da seção de justificativa no gênero textual projeto de dissertação

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the rhetoric-argumentative organization of justification sections of thesis projects on Linguistics, qualified by students of two graduate programs in Fortaleza. The rhetoric organization of the justification sections, were analyzed according to Swales’ genre analysis conception (1990, 1992, 1998). Adam’s concept of text sequence (1992) was the basis for the description of the argumentative structure of this type of genre. First, all the exemplars in the corpus were segmented into rhetoric units and an information distribution pattern was defined. Next, the same corpus was segmented into textual sequences and, finally, a relationship between the rhetoric units and the textual sequences identified was established. Through this investigation it was noticed that the justification section have a rhetoric organization relatively homogeneous and the dominant textual sequence in these texts is always argumentative, although several other sequences occur within the argumentative and play important roles in the realization of some rhetoric units which are prototypical of the generic piece justification section of thesis projects.