Relações retóricas emergentes da inserção de narrativas em notícias de divulgação científica para adultos e crianças

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the rhetorical relations which emerge from the insertion of narrative segments in the macrostructural organization of scientific popularization news directed to children and adults. The narrative organization is analyzed according to Adam’s (2011) and Charaudeau’s (2008b) postulates; the rhetorical organization of the texts, in turn, is studied according to Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST. (MANN; THOMPSON, 1988). The research corpus is composed of 15 scientific popularization news intended for children, published in the magazine Ciência Hoje das Crianças, and of 15 scientific popularization news directed to adults, issued in the magazine Ciência Hoje. The methodology consists of a quantitative analysis of the emergency of rhetorical relations between the narrative segments found in the corpora (texts for children and texts for adults) and other textual portions, as well as of a qualitative analysis of some selected texts in order to exemplify each one of the rhetorical relations found. Then, a comparative analysis is done between the quantitative data resultant from the analysis of the texts for children and of the texts for adults. We assume that the schematization of a text is a process of co-construction, in which the producer, when organizes the text plan, takes into consideration the characteristics and knowledge of his/her possible reader and, from this, resorts to different strategies in order to achieve the discursive aim intended and cause the desired effect over the reader. Thus, we conclude that the recurrent emergency of certain rhetorical relations between the inserted narratives and the other portions of the text reveals strategies of the textual producer in order to guide the reading and comprehension of the new, both in texts written forchildren and in texts written for adults.