DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR SURVEYS IN POLICE
Textual analysis of speeches. Language marks. Argumentative orientation. Referencing. Discursive representation.
This thesis is research object of discursive representations of victim and perpetrator in police investigations texts. The questions that guide the research are: a) which the discursive representations of victim and perpetrator in police investigations? b) as the discursive representations of victim and aggressor are built in this document by police operators and what role these representations play in the argumentative orientation of the text? Before them, the general objective of the research is to investigate the composition of the discursive representations of victim and perpetrator in police investigations. As a specific purpose, examines how the composition of a representation (victim and aggressor) contributes to the construction of meaning in the texts of the surveys analyzed. We started from the hypothesis that the language choices used to construct a particular representation in the case, the discursive representation of victim and offender, are made with a specific purpose, that is, depending on a particular purpose argumentative, according to utterer's intentions (discursive target) - defend (If) and / or accuse, incriminate. The research is part of the general theoretical framework of Text Linguistics, more specifically, in the Textual Analysis of the Discourses (ATD), proposed by Adam (2011). The concept of discursive representation, as developed by ATD, is one of the most important aspects of semantic text size and is here complemented by the work of Grize (1996), from the notion of discursive layout. Inserted in the qualitative paradigm of descriptive character, it is a documentary research, whose corpus consists of nine police investigations related to crimes of violence committed against women. In the analysis procedures, using the theoretical categories of discursive representation, such as referencing, predication, modification, space-time location, connection and comparison. The results show that the discursive representations of victim and aggressor are built differently in the various survey documents as the prospects (or views) enunciative sources through which one tries to reconstruct the fact imputed criminal - the aggression against a woman. Because of their language actions (targeted, objectives) in enunciative situations marked by a police station, has the discursive construction of an institutionalized image for voices (enunciators documented and, as such, established as authoritative sources of a said constitutive of the legal and police figure "victim." Thus, from what they say in the analyzed texts (the victim himself, witnesses, the accused and delegated), the images or representations of "victim" and "perpetrator" can be considered, enunciatively, as the effect of strategies argumentative to promote own discursive actions of the legal and police socio-discursive formation. We conclude that the discursive representations of victim and aggressor, built by different enunciators, pass through lexical choices, collaborating in the project to say and mark an argumentative orientation. It is worth noting the existence of more specific representations of violence against women in the analyzed texts as verbal abuse, shouting, shoving, physical assaults, threats, fear, the woman is seen only as a sexual object, charges of lovers, contempt.