Mood and Modality in Audiovisual Research Articles
An emergent genre in the academic field, the "audiovisual article" brought new possibilities to the scientific publication. The objective of the present study is to carry out a Critical Genre Analysis of such genre, having Systemic Functional Grammar as an analytical tool. The interpersonal meanings conveyed in such articles and their contributions to describe the rhetorical organization of the genre were examined. Among the six audiovisual articles composing the corpus, belonging to different areas of study, results reveal predominance on imperative mood, mainly on the basic speech function of demanding goods and services, with provision of categorical information and instructions.