A concepção do gênero ofício presente nos manuais oficiais de redação

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the conception of the genre official letter presented in the official writing handbooks. We based our work in the genre theories elaborated by Bakhtin (2003), which he approaches the relative stability of the genre and its discursive spheres in which it circles; by Miller (2009), author who conceives the genre as a social action; by Bhatia (2009), who describes the dichotomic character of the genre, both conventional and innovator; and by Devitt (2004), who approaches dynamic, historical and social characteristics of the genre. We also substantiated in the studies done about the genre official letter by Silveira (2007; 2008), who examines the rhetorical and enunciative aspects of this genre. From our analyzes, we verified that the Handbooks bring a formalist perspective of the genre, associating it more to the structure and the diagramming than to its functionality for the spheres in which it circles.