O discurso delituoso e jurídico face ao tráfico de drogas : uma análise crítica

Abstract

The present research addresses the speech of three social actors around the female criminal form of trafficking in drugs, in the perspective that exploits the relation between language and society. The proposed study will analyze actors who inhabit different social, ideological and hegemonic instances, here named margin and center, according to the social concept. The condition of margin is filled with the criminal (a female drug dealer), while in the condition of the center are two legal/social readers of the crime, a prosecutor and a public defender. Our goal is to understand the reasons of strategies, styles and meaning that make up the structure of each discursive ethos, set on the hegemonic and ideological placements assumed. The focus of our theoretical basis is the Critical Discourse Analysis, which recognizes and explains the relation between language and social phenomenon, theory which seeks the commitment to social transformation. At the level of linguistics discourse analysis a major emphasis will be given to Norman Fairclough tridimensional perspective: text, social practice and discursive practice. We seek to understand then the linguistic/social reasons to formation to the legal and reclusive repertoire (speech) around the crime. With this intent the present research broaches origins and foundations of the entry and evolution of women in the world of crime, women in the juridical sphere, concept of imprisonment and drug traffic, but we will also focus the concepts and fundamental postulates of the ACD theory, such as hegemony, ideology, power, ethos and politeness. Thus, we position ourselves on the clues and reflections authorized by argumentative operators, by the modalizing terms, speech acts, metaphors and the interdiscourse of margin and center social representatives