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- Title
Atuação da relação retórica de elaboração na macroestrutura e na microestrutura de elocuções formais.
- Authors
Antonio, Juliano Desiderato; Takahashi, Camila
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to investigate the uses of elaboration relational proposition based on Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) in a corpus formed by formal elocutions. Analysis focuses both on macro and microstructure according to RST principle that rhetorical relations established on discourse level organize from text coherence to clause combining. Within macrostructure level, it was possible to find out that the nucleus of formal elocutions is formed by a supertopic which is expanded by subtopics which work as satellites and add information to the nucleus by means of elaboration relation. In the next layer of rhetorical structure, each of the subtopics becomes nucleus and is expanded by other subtopics. Thus, in macrostructure, elaboration relation is essential for the establishment of coherence in formal elocutions. Within the microstructure of formal elocutions, the satellite of elaboration relation is expressed by means of explicative and appositive clauses. In the first case, additional information about the nuclear clause is added. In the second case, the segment that works as nucleus has an encapsulating referential expression which creates a reference focus for the content that will be specified in the appositive clause.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; CLAUSES (Grammar); APPOSITION (Grammar); STRUCTURAL analysis (Linguistics); ELOCUTION; DISCOURSE analysis
- Publication
Calidoscópio, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 3, p174
- ISSN
1679-8740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/cld.2010.83.02