THE ARGUMENTATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE OPINION TEXTS: ENUNCIATION MECHANISMS

The main goal of this work is to analyze the argumentative language in the opinion texts of ten year-old K5 students in the texts they have written for a school newspaper. We analyze specifically the relationshio between the enunciation operations and the practical situation of the language activity that brought about the text studied. The analysis of text markers, modalizations and other discoursive and linguistic resources make us reach a conclusion that particular linguistic and textual capacities may and must be clarified by means of the work done at school, especially concerning the domain of text/discourse genres. Otherwise, we won’t be preparing the students to become active users of their mother tongue in real social environment.