Rhetoric beyond literature

This paper aims to affirm the importance of rhetoric to decision contexts, recognizing that its characteristics are essentials to many fields, going beyond its role in literature, and that the literature, through the rhetoric, get argumentative power in another fields, such as legal field. Therefore...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Silveira Rezende, Wagner
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
Repositorio:Rónai
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/23039
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/23039
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:rhetoric
literature
judicial decisions
retórica
literatura
decisões jurídicas
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Sumario:This paper aims to affirm the importance of rhetoric to decision contexts, recognizing that its characteristics are essentials to many fields, going beyond its role in literature, and that the literature, through the rhetoric, get argumentative power in another fields, such as legal field. Therefore, the decisions of Brazilian Supreme Court’s judges are analyzed, in the hard cases, from the proposal of Toulmin’s general pattern of argument, enabling to observe as literary arguments are used to justify decisions.