O uso dos predicativos como estratégia argumentativa em sentenças judiciais

Abstract

This master degree dissertation aims to reveal the subjective evaluation potential, explicit or implicit, of the predicatives on a important argumentative genre: the judicial sentence. For that purposes, it analyzes this genre through Systemic Functional Linguistics, theory brought by linguist Michael Halliday that treats language as a grammatical and extralinguistic strata system, in which evolve the concepts of context of situation (register) and of culture (genre). Regarding the linguistic aspects, the clause analysis under the view of the language metafunctions, the interpersonal one, shows the interaction within the instantiation of any text. After presenting this linguistic theory and framing judicial sentence into this approach, with the demystification of neutrality of its speaker, the judge, it explains how the magistrate structures, in the sentence he has to present, the reasonable basis by the use of argumentative resources. At last, in the select corpus research, judicial sentences of Federal Justice in Rio de Janeiro, given in 2011, were analyzed the occurrences of predicatives structures as a argumentative strategy of conviction, to the parts and the society, that the decision made to solve the judicial conflict was the most balanced and truthful to the likelihood of the facts shown during the litigious judicial process