Banca de DEFESA: DANGELA MACEDO DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANGELA MACEDO DE LIMA
DATE: 29/07/2020
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
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“Thanks God I found you to prove my innocence”: Enunciative Responsability in the Rulings of the Naves Brothers’ Criminal - Trial.

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Textual Discourse Analysis. Theory of point of view. Criminal Law. Criminal Prosecution. Rulings.

PAGES: 160
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

In this Master’s thesis, we investigate the phenomenon of Enunciative Responsibility in the discursive/textual genre court ruling in the Naves brothers’ criminal trial, considered one of the greatest errors of the Brazilian justice system. For this investigation, we rely mainly on the theoretical constructs of Jean-Michel Adam (2011), with regard to Enunciative Responsibility, which is based on the theory of Point of View, and Enunciative Responsibility, proposed by Rabatel (2005, 2009, 2016, 2017), also on Guentchéva’s concept of Mediativity (1996, 2011, 2014), and these in dialogue with the studies of Passegi et al. (2010), Rodrigues, Silva Neto and Passeggi (2010), and, finally Rodrigues (2016, 2016ª, 2017). Given this framework, our general objective is to investigate how the phenomenon of Enunciative Responsibility in the genre, court ruling of the Naves brothers’ criminal trial (1937), is materialized. Our specific objectives are to identify, describe and interpret the configurational structure of the text plan of the 5 (five) rulings proffered in the Naves brothers’ criminal trial, as well as the voices, and the points of view that the Justice Tribunal judges of Minas Gerais mobilize to uphold and/or negate the rectification of the decision rendered and, finally, the linguistic marks that assign the (non) assumption of enunciative responsibility in the rulings. The methodology of the research is characterized as qualitative and documentary of our selected corpus of five criminal rulings presented by the Justice Tribunal of Minas Gerais, in the years: 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1953. The court proceedings were collected on the web page of the Justice Museum of Minas – MEJUD (acronym in Portuguese). The analysis of the research data demonstrates that, in the rulings, the compositional structure presents variation, given that two of the five rulings are found to possess occasional text plans, while the others are shown to be fixed, and these comprising a triad plan: report, foundation and device, according to the court order. With regard to the enunciative responsibility, we observe that the judges (S1/E1) in the majority of the examples analyzed, assumes a limited responsibility, denominated “almost-ER” (RABATEL, 2009, 2016), evidenced by the use of different linguistic marks, highlighting the modalities, and the different types of representation of speech (ADAM, 2011). On the other hand, we found that the judges evoked multiple voices for the rulings, demonstrating stances in agreement, disagreement and “neutrality” about the propositional content driven by the secondary enunciators (e2), which are: the confessions, the testimonies, the complaint, the court report, the articles of law, among others that also favor the targeted argumentative thrust.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa ao Programa - 3351562 - CELIA MARIA DE MEDEIROS
Presidente - 349685 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SOARES RODRIGUES
Externa à Instituição - MARIA ELIETE DE QUEIROZ - UERN
Externo ao Programa - 1168647 - MARIO LOURENCO DE MEDEIROS