Estudos do texto, multimodalidade e argumentação: perspectivas

Abstract

In the present chapter I intend to analyze multimodality and its function in a text’s organization and argumentation. The work is divided in two parts: the first one is dedicated to the design of the text, argumentation and multimodality and the discussion of how, in the text studies on socio-cognitive and interactional perspective, researchers are considering the notion of multimodality; the second part focuses on the analysis, by way of example, multimodal resources and their role in organizing a text and its argumentation. The conclusion shows the use of graphic elements (size, style, color or font) associated with the spatial (indent, line spacing and position on the page) in organizing a text and highlighting of topic that compose it, multimodal resources which play an important role in the argumentative orientation.