A representação dos atores sociais em textos jurídicos sobre o sistema de cotas sob a perspectiva da linguística sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

This work is included in the area of research on language in the legal context , and aims to answer the following questions : how are social actors, who are beneficiaries of affirmative action for admission into public universities, represented in a set of texts , produced by the Brazilian Government, about the quota system itself ? And how does theTransitivity system (from Systemic-functional linguistics) show who are the active and passive forces in the issue of affirmative action in public universities ? To asnswer these questions, a heterogeneous corpus was compiled, mainly made up of the vote of Minister Ricardo Lewandowsky , who decided the controversy of quotas , and texts that bear intertextual relations with the trial text , whether they were produced before the vote, as the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988 , in particular Article 5th , heading and paragraph I , and the Law of the State of Rio de Janeiro No. 4151 , 2003 , or later as Law 12,711 of August 29, 2012 , which came in response to the text issued by the Federal Supreme Court . The nature of the research is interpretive qualitative, and its theoretical foundations are found in Systemic-Functional Linguistics and in the theoretical framework for the study of the Representation of Social Actors by van Leeuwen (1996). Within Systemic-Functional Linguistics proper, the analytical categories are those from the Transitivity System, by Halliday (2004)