Citation

Da Silva Tavares E. Calidoscopio 2019; 17(2): 241-262.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.4013/cld.2019.172.02

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In the scope of this study, we aim to investigate the correlation between legitimation and discursive practice, starting from the way the notion of political crime is constituted, placing crimes of torture under its scope, with the intention of being included on Law 6,683, known as the Amnesty Law. Our work is developed based on the articles Case of Vladimir Herzog: the Outlaw Brazilian State (blog CONJUR), by Marcio Sotelo Felippe, and STF is an accomplice in the impunity of the assassins of Vladimir Herzog (blog The Intercept Brazil), by Mario Magalhães. These texts address the responsibility of the Brazilian State by the Organization of American States for the death of the journalist Vladimir Herzog in 1975 during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Therefore, some notions are used, the one about construction of the discourse's object, from the studies on referencing, of Mondada and Dubois; legitimation, discourse and abuse of power, presented in Van Dijk's work; interaction and discursive practices, according to (Socio)Cognitive Semantics; and the last one about semantic norms, postulated by Geeraerts' semantic-cognitive studies. We consider, from the two opinion texts proposed for analysis, that it is the oscillation, the instability settled between the pair suicide and murder that guide the discursive construction operated relatively to a political crime and we understand that the construction of this object of discourse results from interests and the associations marked by the participants in their discursive practices, through linguistic-discursive processes that allow them to (de)legitimize a referent. © 2019 Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. All rights reserved.

Language: pt

Keywords

Discourse; Legitimation; Referencing