Artigo de opinião: argumento e paixões no discurso do adolescente

Abstract

The research is inserted on the text and discourse search field of the oral and written genre. The main objective is to identify the passions of the lecturer (student) uses to compose his opinion article and also identify and examinate how develops the construction the nearly logics arguments during the adolescence period. For this result, has been analyzed school writings (opinion articles) made by nineteen students, among boys and girls, with ages between sixteen and seventeen years old, from the second year of a public state high school, not in downtown area, located in Taboão da Serra SP. The methodology used to develop this research is the rhetorical analysis of eight opinion articles and passion identifying of the current arguments in another eleven of them. The theoretical base for this analysis is focused on Aristóteles studies (2013) about passions and from Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014) about arguments. The results acquired by analyzing school writings, appoint the need of a new sight upon to the adjustments made on the text produced by those students, with the purpose of teachers and students notice the argumentative route chosen, and through this way, will have productions better argued over, structured and grounded, essential characteristics to the opinion article within of the referred age and class