Considerações sobre o estrato fonológico na descrição sistêmicofuncional de textos orais

Abstract

The systemic-functional approach applied to the analysis of oral genres in Portuguese language, overall, does not take into account phonological aspects. We aim in this paper, to demonstrate the phonological stratum relevance, specially, regarding the description of oral texts: (1) to extend the speech functions network to the oral texts typological description beyond the conversational typology; (2) to demonstrate the descriptive application of intonational aspects through tone, tonality, tonicity and rhythm systems in order to identify the move semantic-discursive unit. Our approach follows the phonological stratum description model, proposed by Halliday and Greaves (2008), the analysis in Portuguese occurrences, made by Cagliari (1981, 2012), as well as the proposal of a relationship between prosodic criteria and semantic-discursive system of speech function, proposed by Eggins (1990) and developed by Slade (1996) and Eggins and Slade (2006). We conducted an analysis of the orientation stage of two oral texts, a fictional narrative and a anecdote, based on the following categories: class of moves, mood, rhythm, tones and tonal groups. Our results reveal the identification of moves based on prosodic and lexicogramatical criteria in non-conversational texts, constituting continuous monologic sequences, which fulfill the function of providing more information in the narrative, and non-continuous interactive sequences, revealing that the interactional aspect is a result of the functionality of moves and not the number of participants.