A representação discursiva da vítima e do réu no gênero sentença judicial

Abstract

This paper presents results of a master degree research, in which we analyze how discursive representation of victim and defendant is built in court judgment genre. Thus, we aimed to assess how involved individuals are discursively represented in legal text from views of different enunciators and how referential elements collaborate in construction of these images, which are activated and shared between enunciator and co-enunciators. This work is part of general theoretical framework of text linguistics and, more specifically, of textual discourse analysis (ATD), based on Adam ([2008] 2011), being guided by studies of Rodrigues et al (2010, 2014), Passeggi (2010, 2001), Capez (2012) among others. It is a documentary research, with qualitative, descriptive, explanatory and interpretative character. For analysis, we selected a sentence from TJSP, of violence against women theme. Results indicated that construction of discursive representation of individual is complex and depends on the choices made by enunciator, its intentions, goals, and may approach or distance themselves, according to argumentative text orientation.