Uma investigação funcionalista da relação retórica de conclusão no português falado

Abstract

his paper investigates the rhetorical relation of conclusion in order to characterize its functioning and the formal marks that signal it. The theory that guided the research was Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), which is within the functionalist tradition of language studies. This research is justified by the fact that, even with the existence of the essential information to identify the rhetorical relation of conclusion, the analysts who work with RST still present some difficulty in its identification. The analyzes originated from a corpus of spoken language, consisting of five formal speeches of the lecture genre and ten interviews. The results indicate that: a) the rhetorical relation of conclusion can be nucleus-satellite or multinuclear; b)the conclusion is based on inferential reasoning; c) “então” was the most frequent connective in the corpus, and conjunction “logo”, the less frequent