International Journal of Language & Linguistics

A Reflection on the Use of Argumentative Operators in the Mafalda's Comic Strips Character
Miranilde Oliveira Neves, Mairan Oliveira Neves

Abstract
This article aims to identify argumentative operators present in strips of character Mafalda and show the direction that give to text and how they contribute to the interpretation and textual construction. For this, were analyzed four strips of said character, proceeding firstly the context of the strips and then to analyze the use of each of the outstanding argumentative operators of verbal text. The results show that to achieve a speech argument size, it has to make use of some argumentative operators in the texts that occur, whether oral or written. From the analysis, it is observed that the argumentative operators are important for teaching and learning the Portuguese language, for the production of cohesive and coherent texts, as well as the understanding and interpretation.

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