A coesão lexical: uma análise da reiteração em artigos de opinião sobre o Brasileirão 2023

Abstract

Cohesion is a phenomenon which, through the use of different linguistic elements, makes it possible to connect different ideas and, therefore, different parts of oral and written texts. This important property of the text is established by using both lexical and grammatical language resources. Taking this information into account, in this work, in the light of Textual Linguistics, represented by Halliday and Hasan (1976), Antunes (2005) and Gonçalves (2000), among other authors, we verified how lexical cohesion, with an emphasis on reiteration, is constructed in sports opinion texts, more specifically in opinion articles about the Brasileirão 2023. Along this theoretical-methodological path, we also verified how the types of reiteration present in the texts are used as a textual strategy by the writers and how these types, in addition to guaranteeing the cohesive network, enrich the argument. The corpus of this research consists of 34 opinion articles taken from two major Brazilian newspapers: Folha de S. Paulo and O Globo. The analysis showed a strong presence of lexical cohesion by reiteration in the selected opinion articles, especially reiteration by repetition and synonymy, and revealed how lexical resources can be used as a strategy to maintain cohesion and reinforce the main points of view of the writers. These results allow us to conclude that lexical cohesion by reiteration stands out as a strategic factor in the elaboration of opinion texts.