A primavera sempre chega: a representação da mulher vítima de violência de gênero em uma decisão judicial sob a perspectiva da linguística sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

The present dissertation aims at demonstrating, from a cultural context, how the representation of the woman victim of gender violence reflects a patriarchal, misogenous and conservative society and results in official declarations that circulate freely via language. In order to understand how the social environment can influence the representatiosn of these women in a legal context, our analysis will be substantiated by the Systemic Functional Linguistics assumptions (Halliday; Matthiessen, 2014), more specifically, in the transitivity system which composes the metafunction of ideas, its corpus being a ruling of the Fifth Criminal Chamber of TJRS (Rio Grande do Sul Court of Justice) regarding a rather emblematic and of great repercussion sex violence case in Rio Grande do Sul. Thus, so as to verify the linguistic and discourse choice of words which build a text and imply the victim’s blaming and revictimization in this context, we will rely on Fairclough’s ACD assumptions (2016), and on studies in the area of Feminist Criminology