The form of compositional organization of review as academic genre: an analysis of discursive sequences and their functions

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  • Gustavo Ximenes Cunha Universidade Federal de Alfenas

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2014v11n2p112

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of properties of academic review on its compositional structure and explains the role of the discursive sequences in this structure. On the basis of the postulates of the Modular Approach to Discourse Analysis, we analyze four occurrences of the genre review. The analyses showed that, in this genre, the descriptive sequences are employed to present the book and the topic of each chapter. The argumentative sequences are used to evaluate parts of the book and to recommend or not the book.

Author Biography

Gustavo Ximenes Cunha, Universidade Federal de Alfenas

Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e professor do Instituto de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da Universidade Federal de Alfenas.

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Published

2014-02-05

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2014)

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