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Authors

  • Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo Doutoranda em Inglês e Literatura Correspondente — UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

This work aims at presenting some theoretical considerations about the
discourse of legal sentences from cases of violence against women. Legal discourse is a dominant, hierarchical kind of discourse, based on a structure of exclusion and discrimination of several non-powerful social minorities, such as poor people, blacks, homosexuals, women, etc. Hence the importance of carrying out a critical analysis of legal texts, thus helping to demystify the aura of objectivity and impartiality that involves the law. The linguistic analysis of legal decisions from cases of violence against women, for instance, may help us to understand how women are described in these texts, as well as what subject positions this type of discourse establishes for men and women, and for legal practitioners (judges, etc). By investigating the ideologies that underlie legal texts, and the social relations that these texts construct for its producers and its consumers, this work hopes to encourage a critical reading of, and a form of resistance to, legal decisions (be it by linguists, by lawyers, by language students, by legal students, etc).

Author Biography

Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo, Doutoranda em Inglês e Literatura Correspondente — UFSC

possui graduação em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1990), mestrado em Letras e Linguística Aplicada(Inglês e Literatura Correspondente) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1995) e doutorado em Letras e Linguística Aplicada (Inglês e Literatura Correspondente) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2000). Tem artigos publicados em periódicos e livros nacionais e internacionais. Atualmente é professora adjunta da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística Aplicada e ensino de LE, atuando principalmente na área de Análise Crítica do Discurso. Seus interesses de pesquisa se voltam para questões de gênero, poder e identidade nos discursos profissionais, midiático e jurídico. Certificado pelo autor em 02/02/12

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Published

1997-01-01

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 21 (1997)

Section

Artigos

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