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Linguagem e avaliação: uma análise de texto opinativo Sara Regina Scotta CABRAL ABSTRACT: Appraisal is always present in opinion articles, either in spoken midia or in written midia, but it is not always expressed with qualifiers. Recent studies about evaluation (Martin e White, 2005; Fairclough, 2003) show that, with lexical elements in sentences or in groups of sentences, the speaker/writer engages himself with what he affirms or denies, and so she/he presents her/himself and his values. Appraisal is, therefore, a particular way using language to demonstrate points of view, to construe textual personas and to manage interpersonal relations. The aim of this article is to analyse linguistic strategies of appraisal in a Carlos Heitor Cony’s text, “Barulho por nada”, publicated in May 18, 2004, in Folha de São Paulo, with commentaries about Larry Rother’s report in The New York Times, a subject of great national refleCtion. For analysis, first we identified attitude, dialogism and intertextuality features in linguistic stratum. After, the text was divided in four parts, accordingly appraisal features frequency. We found, in the firs part, a lot of negative appreciation, with only one occurrence of explicit judgement and one negative with disclaim. In the second part, intertextuality positioning occurred, in which the author endorses, with indirect and direct speech, affirmations and convictions of other sources. There is also an occurrence of implicit judgement. In the third part, there are occurrences of appreciation and judgement, and, in the last part, Cony used indirect speech, which shows intertextuality. Thus, final results indicate a lot of negative appreciation in all parts of the text, endorsement of true sources in parts two and four, and negative judgement in part three. We conclude that the author’s strategy, when using negative appreciation and reinforcing it with intertextuality, presents more attitudinal positioning than dialogical one to persuade the writer. KEY-WORDS: appraisal, attitudinal positioning, textual genre, intertextuality. |