Descrição das sessões informatizadas de julgamento do Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 6. Região

Abstract

This is a descriptive-explanatory study, of an interdisciplinary character, which sets out to describe the electronically-recorded decision-giving sessions of the Regional Labor Court of the 6th Region, located in the state of Pernambuco. The issue is important because it reflects a change of paradigm in the judicial field, since it addresses the need for matching the provision of juridical services to social changes, more specifically with regard to dealing with the technological advances which is being witnessed today. It is also the aim of this paper, in the light of the Science of Language, to highlight linguistic discourse markers of this type of communicative event. To do so, the case study that has been selected is a case judged on by one of the Divisions of the Labor Court referred to, which was duly recorded and then transcribed, thus allowing a linguistic textual analysis to be made that differentiates this communicative event from other communicative genres. The linguistic aspects analyzed in this study, and underpinned by theoretical principles, cover issues such as intertextuality; formality / informlity; retextualization; special language / jargon; modes of argument; argumentative operators, and hypertext. On account of what is presented on the authentic juridical event in question, we believe that the results of this paper, may well interest both linguistic operators and those of law; in addition to which it records in the annals of academia an irreversible progress in legal institutions, regarding the introduction of information science into the court environment, which, increasingly, will enable significant improvement in the performance of repetitive and merely bureaucratic tasks, resulting in the rendering of juridical services which is faster, more efficient and economical, the main beneficiary of which is society.