O uso argumentativo da pressuposição linguística em textos jornalísticos: um estudo sobre editoriais

Abstract

This article aims to present an analysis of the argumentative use of the presupposition in two journalistic editorials of Folha de S. Paulo online, seeking to associate the use of this type of implicit to its contributions to the construction of meaning of text and argumentation. The presupposition is here considered as an implicit type with expressive discursive-argumentative role, and as a phenomenon whose knowledge is of extreme importance for the mastery of comprehension ability of the possible meanings of a discourse. The choice of the editorial genre made it possible to show the functioning of the presupposition in real situations of use and to establish comparisons between what is put by the area theorists with real examples. From our analysis and reflections, we noticed, specifically in the editorials, a large number of occurrences of the phenomenon studied, related to the many types of presupposition triggers, which occurs not very often. The consideration we make about this use is that, in order to broaden the argumentative resources and strengthen the existing ones, the authors make use of the assumptions.