Analysis of a hearing audience in the light of the textual discourses analysis: A challenge
Abstract
This study, supported by the theoretical framework of Textual Linguistics of Discourse and by some Semiolinguistic concepts, aims at analyzing a face to face interaction in the context of a legal hearing audience based on the structure of argumentative sequence. The study relevance relays on demonstrating that Textual Linguistics is suitable for the analysis of discourses which belong to speech domain. The gap intended to be filled in by the study concerns the analysis which takes speech as the empiric object whose contextualization transcends the presupposition of fugacity, instantaneity, and temporality softening Jean-Michel Adam’s caveat, according to which speech is different from writing whose contextualization goes from “text to text”. The piece of data which served as analytical material for the study comes from a face to face conversation between a female judge and a defendant audio-recorded at a hearing audience in a trial of drug trafficking in a court of 1st instance in the forum of a town located in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. Throughout analysis, it has been observed that: (a) the argumentative movements accomplished by the participants fit the prototypical argumentative sequence proposed by Jean-Michel Adam, in addition of obeying Patrick Charaudeau’s argumentative organization principles, and (b) the declarative operations undertaken by the speakers allow the recipient to become aware of the whole meaning of the text.
Keywords: Textual Linguistics, argumentative sequence, face to face interaction.
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