Articulators of logical-semantic, discursive-argumentative and textual organization relations

describing the patterns of use of [sendo assim], [fora que] and [(es)pera aí]

Abstract

Based on the assumptions of Usage-Based Linguistics in dialogue with Textual Linguistics, this article seeks to describe some functional patterns of three microconstructions [sendo assim], [fora que] and [(es)pera aí], in their uses as logical-semantic articulator, discursive-argumentative articulator and textual organization articulator, respectively. Such articulators participate both in the textual articulation, at the microstructural and intermediate level, and in the promotion of meanings in a text. From a synchronic perspective, we took as a basis written and written texts as speech reproduction from the Corpus of Portuguese for the analysis of our data. We conducted a primarily qualitative study, describing not only the properties of form and meaning (Croft, 2001) of these three microconstructions but also how, acting as articulators, they establish the connection of the textual portions (Koch e Elias, 2016). The results indicate that [sendo assim] is a connector with semantic value of result, which, pragmatically, presents radiance between consequence and conclusion; on the other hand, [fora que], by adding the final argument of a scale, emphasizes the content conveyed that works as a last resort of convincing; Finally, [(es)pera aí], as a discursive marker, focuses on the interaction between the interlocutors, also helping in the articulation of the utterances of the communicative act.