A explicação definidora nos discursos científicos e políticos

Abstract

This work aims at comparatively analyzing the use of reformulation strategies which performs the function of explanation in scientific and political discourse and takes into account textual-semantic and pragmatic-discursive aspects in an integrated way. This analysis embraces a textual-interactive perspective, that is, attempts to verify the reformulation procedures in concrete situations, observing the linguistic elements within interactional activities. As defining explanation is one of the resources used by the speaker in the articulation of her or his text, analyzing this resource in a functionalist approach is adequate. In this research, we have observed that the use of such reformulative constructions is not restricted to the conception of this procedure as a textualizing strategy employed by the speaker to ensure the addressee’s comprehension of the utterance. Actually it also establishes the relationship between linguistic options in the textual level and the argumentative construction of the discourses.