L’argumentation à la Cour d’Assises brésilienne : les émotions dans le genre du rapport de police

Abstract

In this paper, which is part of a wider research about how discourse functions within the criminal court in Brazil, we investigate the role of emotion in the argumentative construction of the discourse of the court, taking into account the power relations of the latter. Thus, we analyze the “Boletim de Ocorrências” or “BO”, a police report written on the scene of the crime and which represents the first “stage setting” of the “criminal case”.

Keywords

• argumentation
• court jury
• emotion
• Police report