ABSTRACT
When reading or listening to or a history or a story, it is natural to associate its textual organization with narrative in Brazilian context. However, if one takes into account certain linguistic characteristics that show the socio-communicative purpose and the genres stages, stories and histories are not always told using narrative. In order to demonstrate these aspects, in this study, we aim to present linguistic characteristics that instantiate other genres of text used to engaging listeners or readers in Portuguese language textbooks. Based on the Sydney School genre approach (MARTIN and ROSE, 2008), we use the principles of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), focusing on the lexical-grammatical system of transitivity (HALLIDAY and MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014) and on the Attitude subsystem of the semantic-discursive system of Appraisal (MARTIN and WHITE, 2005). For the analysis, 21 texts with the potential to instantiate the exemplum and anecdote genres were selected in the Portuguese textbooks Português Linguagens (CEREJA; MAGALHÃES, 2012) and Projeto Teláris - Português (BERTIN; BORGATO; MARCHEZI, 2012), considering their specific sociocommunication purposes, their schematic structure and typical language characteristics of each genre. The analysis of the transitivity components and the attitude occurrences in each text showed 8 instances of exemplum and 13 anecdotes. In the instantiations of both genres, material and relational clauses were identified to introduce characters into the scenario and description phases, which constitute the Orientation stage. The differences lie in the way the problem is answered in the steps: with Reaction in the anecdote and Interpretation in the exemplum. In addition, to fulfill the purpose of each genre, exemplum instantiations present more judgments, while those of anecdote have evaluations of affect.
Keywords:
Family Genres of Stories; Semantic-Discursive System of Appraisal; Lexical-Grammatical System of Transitivity
