The play of voices in the opinion texts and the constitution of the point of view

Abstract

This paper is the product of our Undergraduate Research, which aims to analyze the way in which writers, within their social places, build and defend their point of view in opinion texts, mobilizing structures of the language. For the analysis, we used the theoretical and methodological framework from Socio-discursive Interactionism (SDI) (Bronckart, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008) called the “text layering", in which three layers are analyzed: the general structure of the text (the thematic content plan, the types of discourse and textual sequences), mechanisms of textualization (connection, nominal cohesion and verbal cohesion) and enunciative mechanisms (voice and modes). In this sense, this article aims to present the Socio-discursive interactionism approach to analyze two texts belonging to opinion article genre, articulating it with the construction of the point of view in these texts. The texts were extracted from the newspapers "Folha de S. Paulo" and "O Estado de S. Paulo". In order to that, first, we will present the definition of Socio-discursive interactionism within the general framework of social interactionism and the theses of the theory. After that, we will present the model of texts analysis and discursive analysis, emphasizing the way that the theory deals with the question of voices. Finally, we will analyze two texts in order to exemplify the reflections of Socio-discursive Interactionism for the treatment of voices.