THE TECHNODISCOURSE OF SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION: RHETORICAL RELATIONS AND NON-LINEAR READING IN HYPERLINKS OF DIGITAL NEWS/O tecnodiscurso de divulgacao cientifica: relacoes retoricas e deslinearizacao em hiperligacoes de noticias digitais.

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From: Alfa: Revista de Lingüística(Vol. 66)
Publisher: Universidade Estadual Paulista
Document Type: Article
Length: 7,829 words

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This paper aims to analyze the rhetorical-discursive behavior of hyperlinks constitutive of digital news of scientific dissemination published in the online magazines Galileit and Superinteressante, based on notions postulated in the framework of Digital Discourse Analysis (DDA), by M-A. Paveau, and of the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), developed by W. Mann and S. Thompson. Towards that, we examine the hyperlinks according to the technodiscursive category of nonlinear reading (ADD), as well as to the rhetorical relations (RST) that emerge between the source and the target text by means of the hyperlink. The analyses show that the textual producer chooses to non-linearize, by means of hyperlinks, the syntagmatic, enunciative and discursive threads of his/her text, in a markedly visual way, in order to cause rhetorical effects on the writer, such as: to bring credibility to the scientific information disseminated, to increase the ability to understand information, to detail the information and, ultimately, to induce the reading of other texts published in the same magazine. It is important, however, to point to the fact that the achievement of those effects depends directly on the readwriter, who will choose to activate, or not, the hyperlink by means of a gestural statement: the click. KEYWORDS: digital discourse; technodiscursivity; hypertext; hyperlinks; non-linear reading; rhetorical relations; digital news of scientific dissemination. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o comportamento retorico-discursivo de hiperligacoes constitutivas de noticias digitais de divulgacao cientifica publicadas nas m istas on-line Galileu e Superinteressante, a partir de nocoes postuladas nos quadros da Analise do Discurso Digital (ADD), de M-A. Paveau, e da Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), desenvolvida por W. Mann e S. Thompson. Para tanto, examinam-se as hiperligacoes segundo a categoria tecnodiscursiva da deslinearizacao (ADD), bem como a partir das relacoes retoricas (RST) que emergem entre o texto de origem e o de destino por meio da hiperligacao. As analises evidenciam que o produtor textual opta por deslinearizat; por meio das hiperligacoes, os fios sintagmatico, enunciativo e discursivo de sen texto, de uma forma marcadamente visual, para exercer efeitos retoricos no escrileitot; como, por exemplo: trazer credibilidade para a informacao cientifica divulgada, aumentar a capacidade de compreensao da informacao, detalhar a informacao e, em ultima analise, induzir a leitura de outros textos veiculados na mesma revista. E importante, contudo, apontar o fato de que a concretizacao desses efeitos depende diretamente do escrileitot; que optam por acionar; ou nao, o hiperlinkpor meio de um enunciado gestual: o clique. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: discurso digital; tecnodiscursividade; hipertexto; hiperligacoes; deslinearizacao; relacoes retoricas; noticia digital de divulgacao cientifica.
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