CONSTRUÇÃO DO GÊNERO ARTIGO DE OPINIÃO NA ESCOLA: POSICIONAMENTO DOS ESTUDANTES SOB A ÓTICA DA AVALIATIVIDADE

The objective of this research is to investigate positions taken by the apprentice writer, in opinion articles. The aim is to specifically check how it performs, from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1994; HALLIDAY; MATHIESSEM (2004), notably the appraisal theory (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) - the subsystem Attitude. To such a procedure, the corpus was made up of ten opinion articles produced by students of the 8th grade of elementary school of a state school in the region of Mata Norte of Pernambuco. The results showed that the analysis of the evaluation standards may be useful in the characterization style of a genre, signaling therefore for the possibility of establishing a dialogue between the Theory of avaliatividade and studies of genres. In short, this research seeks to bring a contribution to the genre studies, arguments and reading