Aspectos contrastivos na retórica do discurso cientifico em português e inglês

Abstract

This study aims to (i) carry out a macrolinguistic description of the rhetorical structures of expository-descriptive scientific texts in Portuguese and English used by Mozambican students in the first years of their higher education and (ii) carry out a contrastive analysis of the main rhetorical structures in the two languages identified in (i). In order to approach the analysis of rhetorical structures, my concern is with the study of textual cohesion and aspects of discursive macro-structure, which allow us to distinguish one type of text from another. In order to carry out this study, I am working with six expository-descriptive texts (three from each language). The texts are taken from EMU teaching manuals in Mozambique. The study comprises five chapters, namely: an introduction, which is Chapter 1 of the dissertation. Chapter 2 contains the literature review, which presents and discusses the theoretical assumptions underlying the study. The research framework is presented in Chapter 3, which contains the methodological considerations taken into account in carrying out this work. Chapter 4 introduces the corpus and its analysis. Finally, the conclusions and some recommendations are presented in Chapter 5.