Discourse analysis grounded in Functionalist Grammar.

Analysis of the text "Open Letter": information taken for granted (knowledge of an epistemic community (van Dijk) and new information provided in the text; additional inferences; discussion of the addressee.

Introduction to the concept of subjectivity and the markers of subjectivity:

- deixis and deictic markers

Application to the text "Open Letter"

Objeto de avaliação , Autor da avaliação, Marcador de avaliação

Defining the elements of the context.

Modalidade avaliativa: introdução

Extension of discourse

Discourse and text

Discourse as an instance of communication, with a communicative intent 

Discourse as action 

Discussion of Gee & Hanford's Introduction