Lexical stylistic and the Legal Discourse in the Sentences of the “Vara Maria da Penha” in the Combat the Domestic Violence Against the Women

Abstract

This article is a study about lexical stylistics in the legal discourses of sentences involving violence against women in the “Vara Maria da Penha”, Londrina, Paraná. Like Law, language is a social institution that regulates human relations, functioning, therefore, as a mediator between the person and the everyday reality that surrounds him. Unfortunately, in many situations, the language is used in a harmful way, where it is possible to glimpse lexical and evaluative items used in a pejorative way, as in music, advertisements, and even in bad taste jokes that circulate in social networks and that End up camouflaging violence against women, violence that does not have to be specifically physical but also moral and psychological, and in this context words are powerful weapons. In order to curb violence against women, Law 11.340/2006, known as the Maria da Penha Law, was issued. From its promulgation, all processes involving gender violence began to process in the specialized rods Maria da Penha. It is intended, therefore, through the analysis of lexical stylistics, to look back and to bring to the agenda of the study the analysis of lexical and evaluative items common in the legal discourse of the sentences of the processes that process in the “Vara Maria da Penha”, including, with the transcription of the reports, preserving the parties involved because it is a matter of.