“RAPE WITHOUT INTENT"

THE TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM IN THE MARIANA FERRER'S JUDICIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/uft2179-3948.2022v13n1p208-228

Keywords:

systemic-functional linguistics; ideational metafunction; judicial testimony; representation of the female image

Abstract

This study proposes to observe the representation of Mariana Ferrer, young who, in 2018, recorded a report of occurrence reporting having been drugged and raped in a luxury establishment in Florianópolis/ SC through the analysis of the court statements of the procedural book. So, the main goal is, through the transitivity system, to analyze the language used by the deponents to build representations of Mariana in fifteen testimonies through the selection of processes and thematic roles present in the passages related to the moments close to the event. The theoretical framework is based on the works of Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) and Fuzer and Cabral (2014), in the light of the contribution of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, which describes and analyzes the language from the potential choices of the speaker/writer. In the legal discourse, the analysis of  choices in lexicogrammar made by speakers in favor of their views revealed a tendency to represent it from behavior patterns that meet socially established models. 

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Author Biography

Magda Bahia Schlee, UERJ

Doutora em Letras-Língua Portuguesa pela UERJ. Mestre em Letras Vernáculas pela UFRJ. Professora Associada de Língua Portuguesa e docente permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos de Língua da UERJ. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa SAL (Sistêmica, Ambientes e Linguagens – CNPq), coordenadora adjunta do GESD – Grupo de Estudos em Sistêmica e Discurso (UERJ) e coordenadora do Projeto LabGraDis – Laboratório de Gramática e Discurso (Edital FAPERJ nº 38/2021).

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Published

2022-10-26

How to Cite

Costa Mendes, A. C., & Schlee, M. B. (2022). “RAPE WITHOUT INTENT": THE TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM IN THE MARIANA FERRER’S JUDICIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS. EntreLetras, 13(1), 208–228. https://doi.org/10.20873/uft2179-3948.2022v13n1p208-228