Discursos de posse dos Presidentes do Supremo Tribunal Federal Brasil, capital Brasília: uma das faces do ethos do Poder Judiciário

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze how words act in the inaugural addresses of Chiefs Justice of the Supreme Court, focusing on the speaker and the place he/she occupies in the world within he/she creates his/her speech, during the moment he/she has the right to speak. The relations of power established by the word and the action the same is capable of realizing: image construction, the otherness perception at the moment of creating the discourse and the necessary adjustments between the "self" and the "other' in order to develop argumentation. Considering that the immanent power of the political word is the basic premise to identify the ethos of the discourse announcers, it was emphasized on how it is constituted in these speeches, being aware of the historical, social, linguistic and discursive representation of the speakers, whose individual or group identity, as well as the audience to whom is addressed inscribes language and society as a basic premise to realize the study of the linguistic structure that was used in their composition. Studying the inaugural addresses of Chiefs Justice of the Supreme Court in the last 47 years of Republic in Brazil, allows us to point out one of the images of the Judicial Power, created by its own members, and the reflection between presidency and presidents; to observe the characteristics that inscribe them in certain discursive domains and the "contract" that confirms the interdependence and relevance of the announcer and audience for the constitution of the ethos of "reliability" in these speeches, which we identify as " inaugural address/speech"; to identify the adjustments and interaction between the three parts: announcer, address/speech and audience responsible for the development of the argumentation and the building of one of the faces of the ethos of the Judicial Power