MODALIZATION AND ARGUMENTATION

modalization as astrategy forthe construction of argumentative discoursein the editorial genre

Abstract

Seeking to know how the use of modalization contributes to the construction of argumentative discourse in the editorial genre, in this article, we aim to analyze the use of logical, deontic, and appreciative modalizations in the argumentative discourse of editorial, in the light of Discourse Analysis, Sociodiscursive Interactionism and the study of Argumentation. Therefore, weare based on the notions of Argumentation, with the studies of Amossy (2011), Charaudeau (2016), and Fiorin (2016); in the understandings about the editorial genre of Arbex Jr. (1992), Koche, Boff, and Marinello (2014), Pereira and Rocha (2006), and in the formulations about modalization of Coracini (1991) and Bronckart (2007). As a corpus, we use the editorial Justiça Conveniente from the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, published on July 13, 2020. As for the methodological approach, were sorted to bibliographic research and the method of interpretive analysis, in a qualitative approach. As result, we observed the use of logical, deontic, and appreciative modalizations, which, in principle, express the subjectivity of the subject-enunciator, but can also create an objectivityeffect. With them, the one who argues evaluates, appreciates, criticizes, evidence, explains, finds,contradicts facts, approaches, or moves away from enunciated, defends, suggests, and imposes
thoughts. Thus, the modalizations are shown as true argumentative strategies, helping in the construction of the argumentative discourse of editorial, a time that through them the subject-enunciator is inserted itself in the enunciate, in an accentuated way, to defend its position, its interests, to persuade the subject-enunciator.