THE NARRATIVE SEQUENCES IN JUDICIAL SENTENCES
Discourse Textual Analysis. Legal discourse. Narrative textual sequence. Judicial sentence.
In the present work, under the light of the Textual Discourse Analysis, we propose to study the compositional structure of the genre judicial sentence, with a focus on the text plan and on the narrative textual sequences that materialize in its report. In order to understand in what manner those sequences occur, we sought to identify, describe, analyze and interpret the (macro) narrative propositions that take part in the genre compositional structure starting from the elaboration of a text plan. In a broader sense, this research is grounded on the general propositions of the Text Linguistics. The corpus of this research is composed by three sentences of criminal nature, extracted from the Sentence Database of the Portal da Justiça Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (JFRN) website. Regarding the applied methodology, the present research is of documental nature, whilst guided by an inductive-deductive reasoning and being of a qualitative and descriptive character. Results indicate that the sentence report does not limit itself only to the listing and enumeration of the actions put into practice by the concerned parties throughout the legal process, but that it possess a high level of narrativization, displaying all components of a narrative sequence. Due to the global-level narratives, there is a presence of minor narratives, the so-called embedded narratives, which function as mechanisms of contextualization and specification of actions.