Contraste, concessão e contra-argumentação em textos académicos uma análise exploratória

The present study takes an integrated approach of grammatical elements and structures from the perspective their functioning in texts/discourses. It focusses semantic-pragmatic argumentative-discursive values utterances represented by conceptual scheme Yes... But..., academic writing, particular master’s theses reports. Its object are discursive sequences with a composite argumentative movement comprising concession contrast /counter-argumentation. From wide universe works, made up final reports FLUP Master’s students, years 2020-2022, five works were selected which focus frequently occur. set clipped constituted corpus this study. After theoretical framework, exploratory analysis qualitative interpretative nature was carried out, based on procedures such as: segmentation movements contrast, starting identification linguistic related to Yes..., But...; categorization description these segments, taking into account syntactic-semantic pragmatic-discursive dimensions; comparison displayed different categories; explanation occurrences genre question; articulation enunciative, interactional contextual dimensions discourse production. results show that contrastive constructions, as adversative concessive, acquire, discourse, very similar discursive-argumentative functions, serving mark mitigated discordant polyphony confrontational strategy combines agreement (even if partial) disagreement, proves be particularly appropriate under analysis. They also demonstrate is higher classifications, assessment course, working evidence author’s capacity for problematization critical, divergent thinking. In way, it may come function specific marker improve writing competence.