Rhetorical relations and types of arguments: a study of the possible correlations
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v47i2.1935Keywords:
RST, New Rhetoric, rhetorical relations, argumentationAbstract
This paper aims at presenting the types of arguments used in argumentative texts and the rhetorical relations emerging from such arguments, as well as the possible correlations between the rhetorical relations and the types of arguments. The corpus of the research is composed of 100 essays of the argumentative response genre produced for the 2013 summer entrance exams of Universidade Estadual de Maringá. The typology of the arguments used in the analysis is based on the New Rhetorics, as proposed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2005), and the taxonomy of the rhetorical relations is based on Mann and Thompson (1988). The results show recurrent correlations between argument types and rhetorical relations. This demonstrates the possibility of mapping discursive-argumentative relations in the relational propositions that emerge from the textual portions of the analyzed genre.Downloads
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