O discurso da Carta de Guia de Casados (de D. Francisco Manuel de Melo)

Abstract

In this study the author analyses the organization and the functioning of discourse in the work referred to in the title. Particular attention is paid to the macrostructures — and their interconnections — which should be recognised in it, to the semantic and semantic-pragmatic axes which run through it, to the argumentative and dialogical moments which are drawn up in it, to the strategies in the order of persuasion which cross it and to the enunciative and compositive heterogeneiry which characterizes it.