Operadores argumentativos na Veja: o escândalo do Mensalão

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the use of the argumentative operators in clipping of reports of Veja magazine about the scandal named Mensalão, focusing the working of argumentative operators of contra-conjunction, of addition, of conditionality and of restriction, That shows the point of view of the magazine in relation to the “true” that it wants to convince its readers. The corpus that composes this bibliographic and qualitative research has 119 clipping of five reports of Brazil editorial, published in Veja magazine in the period from 01-06-2005 to 03-08-2005. To the analysis, we took as base the theoretical – methodological principles of Argumentative Semantic introduced by Ducrot (1987, 1989), complemented by Koch contributions (1996, 1997, 2007) and Neves (2000) contributions. We concluded by means of the data analyzes that the operators more utilized in journalistic texts have as basic functions add and to go against arguments and that the journalist uses these operators to be favorable or against the facts that he presents directioning the speech.