Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2008 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Loli, Rejane
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| Orientador(a): |
Ikeda, Sumiko Nishitani |
| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Dissertação
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
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| Departamento: |
Lingüística
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| País: |
BR
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| Palavras-chave em Português: |
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| Palavras-chave em Inglês: |
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13972
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Resumo: |
Self-help books have presented the largest growth and are also responsible for the new best-sellers in the market. Marketdata research institute estimates that the world market of self-help books generated about US$8.5 billions in 2003. They reckon the total size of this market can reach more than US$11 billions in 2008. We can note that the self in self-help, as well as the self in self-learning, means learning without being followed by a teacher. It does not mean self-help, but that one can help him or herself with the help of a book, written by someone else. There is a writer passing their ideas on to a reader, hoping they will be accepted. Thus, the question is: how can a self-help book writer convince their reader of the validity of their statements? Persuasion, mainly implicit persuasion, is not always realized by clearly persuasive adjectives and adverbs, but also by certain lexico-grammatical choices which, in specific contexts, make a text extremely persuasive. This kind of persuasion takes place gradually throughout the text and may be extremelly efficient. Considering the undeniable success of these books, I found it justifiable to develop a study about the self-help text, analyzing it according to the point of view of the discourse, focusing on how the writer transmits his idea in order to get the reader s adhesion. To do so, I will use the critical discourse analysis which, by studying the social and historical situation of a text, aims at bringing to the readers knowledge the patterns of values and beliefs codified in the language invisible for those who take discourse as natural . I hope to analyze the lexico-grammatical choices made by the writer in order to persuade, explicitelly or implicitelly, the reader in the self-help books. For this, I will use Halliday s (1994) systemic-functional linguistics, specially the simultaneous action of the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions, and also some recent contributions in terms of the writer s positioning towards the text and content evaluation. So, I will use, specially, in Martin (2000; 2003), that, with the token nocion value, frame (Goatly 1997; Bednarek 2005); in crypto-argumentacion (Kitis e Milapídes, 1996); textual world (Downing, 2003) and Semino (1997) |
