摘要：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).
其他摘要：This work aims at presenting some theoretical considerations about thediscourse 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).
关键词：critical discourse analysis;legal discourse;genre;power;violence.;análise critica do discurso;discurso jurfdico;gênero;poder;violência.
