Discursive genre, style, authorship

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the stylistic use of language in concrete utterances according to the dialogic theory of language. To accomplish this purpose it was selected Fernando de Barros Silva's article published in Folha de S. Paulo, february 06, 2008, observing how the theme, the author purpose and the relationship with the immediate context create a peculiar stylistic and compositional form, breaking the compositional form and the generic style of the opinative article. In this analytical perspective, it seeks to demonstrate that the style cannot be reduced to the author inspiration, but it results from dialogic relationships between the author, the presumed reader and the social context. So as Bakhtin posits, the style results from the dialogic relationship maintained between the utterer and his social group (BAKHTIN, 2003). It highlights, therefore, the question of authorship in subjective genres that are affected by the subjective inflection changing its shape.