VIOLENCE CONTRE LES FEMMES ET « MOROSITE » DE LA JUSTICE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND "gloom" JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at offering a legilinguistics and contrastive approach to the evolution of some legal terms and phrases in the field of gender violence in English and Romance languages. A more particular focus is given to terms, phrases and structures used in Brasil and Latin America, as well as to sociolinguistic relations with terms outside the scope of gender violence, such as “morosidade da justiça”. Different types of discourses (media, public authorities, victims) are explored in order to shed more light on the interdependence underlying the evolving interaction of various participants to communication acts and the influence of the merchandisation of information on the legal environments within our consumption societies.

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