OLIVEIRA, M. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3603504209472764; OLIVEIRA, Mateus de Souza.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the linguistic presupposition, a phenomenon of a semantic
scope that accounts for the recovery of implicit meanings from the structure of the
utterance itself. Initially revealed by the logician Gottlob Frege (1892), through a
formal-logic semantics approach, and later developed by the semanticist Oswald
Ducrot (1977), already based in Saussurean structuralism, in Ducrot‘s view, the
presupposition is assumed as an argumentative strategy. The aim of this paper is to
demonstrate, in a qualitative-descriptive approach, a necessary relationship between
the argumentation in the opinion article genre and the phenomenon in focus. After
tracing a historical and conceptual overview on presupposition, some of the lexical
elements and syntactic behavior are enumerated, those which point out to the
existence of implicit contents considered as presupposition. This research takes
place in text genre of opinion article, due to its essentially argumentative aspect and
its possibility of providing greater freedom to the writer in his/her argumentation. To
accomplish that, an approach from the perspective of text genre is brought to light,
according to definitions of Bakhtin (1992), Marcuschi (2002), Bazerman (2005) and
Schneuwly (2004), and reflections of Rodrigues (2001), Melo (2003) and Silva (2008)
on the genre in focus. By identifying the main presuppositions and their relations with
argumentativeness, an analysis of texts is developed.