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The contributions of sociorhetoric to the study of discursive genres (oral and written) have been very significant, especially with regard to mapping and understanding the rhetorical organization of the various texts with which we have contact in our personal and professional lives. The English socio-rhetorical line conceives the textual genre as a social action moved by a communicative purpose that presents recurrence of discursive properties legitimized and agreed upon by a discursive community, serving as a framework for the production of individual texts. The communicative purpose is understood, then, as the purpose that motivates a writer/speaker to produce texts, being it an element considered key to the classification of a genre. Added to the concept of communicative purpose, the CARS (Create A Research Space) model, proposed by Swales (1990), supports the study of the rhetorical organization of a text, enabling the analyst to map the rhetorical movements (moves) and the sub movements (steps) that are used by the authors in the progression of the content when producing a discursive genre. The analysis of the rhetorical organization of the executive summaries of the thematic documents of the United Nations in Brazil revealed that, although the summaries share the same communicative purpose, the texts do not maintain a rigid standard with regard to the rhetorical structure, with some variation of the structural organization in the texts, which is in line with the socio-rhetorical theory of genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the experiences with the automobile in the city of Curitiba between 1903 and 1914. The time frame refers, firstly, to the moment in which we locate the arrival of the first automobile in the capital of Paraná, and to the course in which the automobile dynamics became better organized. We were interested in understanding how these activities were organized, their buying and selling strategies, people responsible, places and what meanings were conveyed around them. To reach the objective, the newspapers of the period in question were used as sources. In the end, we could see that the artifact itself, and the ways of experiencing this machinery - especially through tours, adventures and competitions - represented a range of meanings that went in the direction of what was thought of in the collective at the time as beneficial for the material and cultural transformation of Brazilian cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In a turbulent period for Portuguese history such as the 1920s, the development of the car use and tourism went hand in hand. However, this union was ephemeral, lasting for less than a decade. The results in the development of tourism and accessibility proved to be poor, keeping the country behind when compared to other European countries. With the change in the political regime, the political organization also changed, separating the entities responsible for road development and tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]