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STUDENT : JOSE WILLIAN DE SOUZA SILVA
DATE: 28/01/2026
TIME: 00:09
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The man who legislates: point(s) of view in anti-abortion bills of the Chamber of Deputies

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Abortion. Textual Discourses Analysis. Point of view. Bill. Enunciative responsibility.

PAGES: 140
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This dissertation has as its general objective to investigate the construction of points of view in the justifications of the anti-abortion Bills nº. 810/1949 and noº. 1,904/2024. As specific objectives, we aim to identify, describe, and interpret the enunciative, textual, and discursive markers that construct point of view (POV) and enunciative responsibility (ER). To this end, we adopt Textual Discourses Analysis of (TDA) as our theoretical framework, a theoretical-methodological and descriptive approach that provides an overarching theory, as postulated by Adam (2011). Originating from Text Linguistics (TL), TDA establishes the study of the co(n)textual production of meaning based on concrete texts, examining them in light of specific analytical planes. Guided by eight analytical levels, our analysis is situated at N7, the enunciative level, which accounts for enunciative responsibility and polyphonic cohesion. Within TDA, some levels of analysis do not rely on autonomous theories, but rather on possibilities of interface. To complement the enunciative level, we draw on Rabatel’s pragma-enunciative theory of point of view (2016, 2021, 2025 [2017]). The present study is situated within a qualitative paradigm, with a descriptive-exploratory character and based on inductive-deductive reasoning, constituting documentary research whose corpus consists of two anti-abortion bills. We demonstrate that, in the justifications of anti-abortion Bills nº. 810/1949 and nº. 1,904/2024, the construction of POV and the management of ER produce the erasure and invisibilization of women as victims of sexual violence. This erasure does not result from the absence of reference to women, but from textual and enunciative operations that delegitimize their speech, without granting them space for interlocution, that is, for the expression of their own points of view. We identify that micro-POV (predication) and narrative modes (narrative sequencing) orient interpretation toward suspicion of women’s speech, symbolic protection of men, or the technical framing of abortion – never toward the experiential sphere of women as victims. We observe that the L1/E1 manages voices so as to sustain a purported appearance through legal neutrality, while simultaneously inscribing axiological and political positions. These procedures reveal regularities inherent to legislative discourse as an institutional practice, insofar as the act of legislating presupposes a power historically granted to men to prescribe and proscribe over women’s bodies. We therefore conclude that the bills analyzed are configured as discursively heterogeneous texts, in which the legal form functions as a means of legitimizing projects of power.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 349685 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SOARES RODRIGUES
Interno - 349707 - LUIS ALVARO SGADARI PASSEGGI
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DE FÁTIMA SILVA DOS SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - ROSALICE BOTELHO WAKIM SOUZA PINTO