Um estudo do gênero jurídico acórdão

Abstract

This research aims at presenting a description of the rethorical organization of the juridic genre acórdão. It also aims at makig a description of the juridic discourse community. In order to accomplish such goals, 30 acórdãos from two different courthouses were analysed. The theorical presuppositions of the Genre Analysis, especifically the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin (2000) and John M. Swales 1990/ 1992) gave the research the necessary support. To implement the analyses, the methodological procedings of Vijay Bathia (1993) were used. These were divided in three blocks. First, it was obseved the selection and delimitation of the corpus; second, development of the research, and finally the presentation of the results. The results of the aalyses performed on corpus shows that the juridic genre acórdão has five rethorical units and eighteen rethorical subunits. The rethorical units are: The identification of the parts – Unit 1; The summary of the subject – Unit 2; The reasons of the author – Unit 3; The position of the group – Unit 4; the end of the sentence – Unit 5. The evidence emerging from the analysis suggests that: a) the real members of the juridic community are the justice operators; b) the juridic genre acórdão is made by expert operators of the community. We conclude that the analysis based in the pressupositions of Genre Analysis may be quite productive in the studies which explore the interdisciplinarity between Linguistics and Law.