SILENCE. FOR A POETIC OF THE LAW

Abstract

From the epistemological perspectives proposed by ius-literary studies, the present work aims to investigate the silences and semantic indeterminacies that are installed in legal discourse. The study considers that law unfolds from a language that appears stable and hermetic, but which, however, exposes notions and spaces characterized by the absence of univocal definitions. The analysis will be developed using a qualitative methodology. The interpretative frameworks offered by the theoretical categories that analyze the relationship “law and literature” and the conceptual tools proposed by critical discourse studies will be used. To achieve this, it will be necessary to identify legal statements in order to glimpse connections with other discourses, the practices of their agents and their subsequent development in the social imaginary. The research intends to conclude that an interdisciplinary study around the theme of silence would make visible other narratives that emerge from the margins of the law, at the same time as allowing their resignification and reestablishing their poetic origin.