Um estudo funcionalista a respeito do uso de apenas um item do par correlativo aditivo "não só... Mas também" e similares

Abstract

This work investigates, in digital genders from hypertexts, the use of additive correlative constructions which presents only one of the phrases of the pair não só mas também and similar. We aimed to verify the status of these additive constructions with only the first phrase of the pair não só mas também and similar, in which concerns its dependence, independence or interdependence. We intended either to check if these constructions may be considered strategies of argumentation of which the speaker appropriates while producing the text. Our research is based on theoretical of functionalist theory, which sees language as a social interactional instrument and worries in analyzing the interlocutors, their purposes and the discursive contexts - the motivation for languages facts. Are explored also both traditional and functional visions as regard the articulation process of clauses, specially, the ones referring to additive and correlative clauses. Furthermore, there are some considerations about: focalization and information units, once these concepts were used as analysis parameters of the constructions in study. The corpus of the research is made of occurrences extracted of digital genders as link and news of electronic newspaper (which structure is less elaborated as the news presented in printed newspapers and magazines). Since the analysis of the corpus by five parameters previously established, the results showed a predominance of occurrences with independent status. Moreover, by intermediate, especially, of the analysis parameter turned to the focalization context, we observed that, consciously or unconsciously, the speaker uses only não só , não apenas or não somente - possibilities to form the first item of the correlative pair não só mas também - to emphasize determined part of the text and/or reinforce the argumentation. In the end, the study shows that new usages, constructions and concepts - not contemplated by traditional grammars - emerge from the language in use, which is in constant evolution.