The Power of the Speeches of Porto’s Employers in Anniversary Commemorative Sessions: Verbal Rituals, Argumentation and Enunciative Configuration

Authors

  • Carla Aurélia Almeida Universidade Aberta. Departamento de Humanidades

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v30i1p69-87

Keywords:

Discursive Strategies, Porto’s Employers, Mitigators, Intensifiers, Argumentation.

Abstract

Taking as a basis a corpus of news with the anniversary speeches of the Associação Industrial Portuense published in the news magazine A Indústria do Norte (1949-1970), we will analyse how, in those speeches, an image of the speaker is structured. For this purpose, we will consider the enunciative organisation of the commemorative speech for the anniversary; the speech acts sequence and the discursive strategies of intensification and mitigation at the service of persuasion. We will verify that the representatives of the employers put at steak a covening argumentative instrument of a doxa shared by a speech community. This strategy of argumentation is revealing and has to do with a specific position-taking of a representative speaker from Porto’s employers.

 

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Author Biography

  • Carla Aurélia Almeida, Universidade Aberta. Departamento de Humanidades
    Professora Auxiliar do Departamento de Humanidades da Universidade Aberta

Published

2017-08-28

How to Cite

ALMEIDA, Carla Aurélia. The Power of the Speeches of Porto’s Employers in Anniversary Commemorative Sessions: Verbal Rituals, Argumentation and Enunciative Configuration. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 30, n. 1, p. 69–87, 2017. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v30i1p69-87. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/133198.. Acesso em: 14 may. 2024.