Argumentação em um processo trabalhista de dano moral

Abstract

In this dissertation, we studied the argumentation in a labor process of moral damage, whose objective was to identify and describe the procedures of the Language and, more specifically, of the speech used in the request of moral damage in a judicial sentence. We support our research in the constructs in ATD – Textual Analysis of Discourses – Adam (2011), in studies on the rhetoric of Aristotle (1969) and Perelman (1996), Rodrigues, Silva Neto and Passeggi (2010); methodologically, we used the deductive-inductive method, as we analyzed the argumentation in an “unknown” text – particular case – based on an already known theory (about language, text and argumentation). As for the nature and objectives, our research was characterized as qualitative and as an explanatory and descriptive investigation, with technical procedures for document collection and bibliographical research. As a corpus, we use a judicial sentence of a labor nature, extracted from the website of the TRT - Regional Labor Court, 21st Region. The results revealed, through the positions of the enunciators in the analyzed discourses, that the argumentative connectors played decisive roles in the organization of the argumentative strategies of the text and the discourse, guiding the co-enunciators towards the conclusion desired by their enunciator. It was also possible to conclude that the use of argumentative connectors allowed constructions with presuppositions in the form of presentation of the arguments and in the construction of the argumentation, as well as the operators "therefore", "because", "with the purpose of", but also", " not only” among others. Finally, the enunciator introduced arguments based on the use of linguistic marks capable of demonstrating – justifying a thesis and refuting an adverse thesis towards an acceptable basic conclusion within a text plan