ARGUMENTATION AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE IN A COURT CASE
Argumentation; judicial sentence; argumentative orientation; process; argumentative connectors; moral damage.
We study in this dissertation the argumentation as a strategic resource in a case of judicial process, whose objective was to identify and describe the procedures of the Language and, more specifically, of the speech used in the request for moral damages in a judicial sentence, we support our research in the constructs in the ATD - Textual Analysis of Discourses – Adam (2011), in studies on the rhetoric of Aristotle (1959) and Perelman (1996), Rodrigues, Silva Neto and Passeggi (2010); methodologically, we used the deductive-inductive method, as we analyzed the argumentation in an “unknown” text – a particular case – based on an already known theory (about language, text and argumentation). As for the nature and objectives, our research was characterized as qualitative and as an explanatory and descriptive investigation, as technical procedures for document collection and bibliographic research. As corpus, we used a court ruling of a labor nature, extracted from the TRT website – Regional Labor Court, 21st Region. The results revealed that the argumentative connectors played decisive roles in the organization of the argumentative strategies of the text and the discourse, guiding the co-enunciators to the conclusion desired by the enunciator. It was also possible to conclude that the use of argumentative connectors allowed syllogistic constructions in the form of presentation of arguments and in the construction of argumentation, as well as the operators "therefore", "as long as", "with the purpose of", but also", "not only” among others. Finally, the enunciator introduced arguments capable of demonstrating – justifying a thesis and refuting an adverse thesis towards a conclusion aimed at by the enunciator.