Brazilian soccer team in the service of beer: Multifunctional textual analysis under the perspective of systemic functional grammar

Authors

  • Cristiane Fuzer Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Sara Regina Scotta Cabral Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Raymundo da Costa Olioni Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze, under the perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004), an opinion article on the participation of members of Brazilian soccer team in beer advertisements during the 2010 Soccer WorldCup. Within the context of ideational metafunction, we analyzed the transitivity system, and based on that we investigated the participants included in the discourse and their representations. In relation to the interpersonal metafunction, resources of modality were analyzedin the text. Seen as responsible for systematizing experiential and interpersonal meanings, the thematic structure, by which one performs the textual metafunction, is analyzed by mapping the types of sentence Themes.

Key words: Systemic Functional Grammar, language metafunctions,lexicogrammar, opinion article.

Author Biographies

Cristiane Fuzer, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Professora Adjunto do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas e do Programa de Pós-Graudação em Letras da UFSM.

Sara Regina Scotta Cabral, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Professora Adjunto do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas e do Programa de Pós-Graudação em Letras da UFSM.

Raymundo da Costa Olioni, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Professor Adjunto de Língua Portuguesa da Universidade do Rio Grande

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Published

2011-10-28

How to Cite

Fuzer, C., Cabral, S. R. S., & Olioni, R. da C. (2011). Brazilian soccer team in the service of beer: Multifunctional textual analysis under the perspective of systemic functional grammar. Calidoscópio, 9(3), 188–197. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2011.93.03

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2011): September/December

Section

Articles

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