O gênero coluna esportiva: informação e opinião

Abstract

Research with genre, nowadays is conquering space and receiving special attention in the academic mean, because the study of different texts amplify the discursive and linguistic ability of the professional who act in the language teaching. Consequently, the abilities of their pupils increase too. Therefore, the students become best writers and readers with more social involvement. This research accomplishes a study of the Paulo Sant ana s sporting column genre published in Zero Hora newspaper, from Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil. The realization of this research is considered important because the great relevance of this theme in the Brazilian context. Where the sporting texts have great repercussion and circulation. For this study, started of these hypothesis: 1) the sporting column textual kind offer so rich study material as the socially valorized texts (politic, religious, literary), 2) the Paulo Sant Ana s sporting column may be classified as genre because show characteristics of the column genre, 3) the metadiscursive elements (Vande Kopple: 1985) are very important to the persuasive process on the text, It constitute one of the principals resources used by the author to attract his public to the column read.Thus, the aim of this work is study the Paulo Sant Ana s sporting column genre. Contextual configuration is worked through the field variables, relation and mode, compulsory elements in the genre identification. To discuss genre, it is searched base on authors like Halliday (1985), Hassan (1985), Maingueneau (2001), Meurer (1997, 2002) and Marchuschi (2002). To aboard the column genre characteristics, it is searched subsidy on Melo (1994, 2003), Suárez and Carro (2000) and Rabaça and Barbosa (2000). To the sporting journalism study, it was worked specially with Coelho (2003), Melo (2003b) and Damo (2002).