Discourse relations in journalistic narratives: searching for systematizations

Abstract

On narrative journalism, journalists perform different discursive actions, such as commenting, opposing, exemplifying etc. Based on the Modular Approach of Discourse Analysis, this work proposes that these actions are constitutive of how the journalist narrates and cannot be studied as if they were detached from the context. Thus, the analysis of 53 narrative sequences allowed us to observe regularities, such as the predominance of argumentative relations, regularities that are connected to the genre.

Keywords

• Discourse relations
• Narrative sequences
• Reports