The postgraduate program in Language Studies at the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts at UFRN will offer the subject (Topics of the Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics line) entitled: “Argumentation in the light of rationality and emotion” for the Levito 2016.2 period, which will be taught by prof. Giovanni Damele and the professor. Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues.
The subject's syllabus provides for the study of argumentative strategies, the rhetorical function and modalities of rationality. Study of emotional speech.
The intended objectives are:
Identify the nature and function of strategic argumentation, using the example of legal rhetoric;
Characterize the modes of “internal” and “external justification” of legal argumentation;
Understand legal rhetoric as a particular case of practical argumentation;
Recognize the specificities of judicial debate and forensic rhetoric;
Identify the modalities of strategic rationality of the subjects that are part of the judicial debate;
Characterize emotion as an argument;
Identify linguistic marks of emotion as an argument.
The contents that will be covered are: legal rhetoric, rationality and strategies and emotion as an argumentative target.
The teaching method reflects the nature of the studies in attendance, we seek to use a non-directive methodology, encouraging and valuing, through debate, active participation in each session. We seek to encourage students' critical participation in the analysis of the discourse that motivates Justice decisions. Theoretical component 60%; practical component 40%.
The evaluation processes will be:
Preparation, presentation and discussion in class of a theoretical/practical research project on one or several themes and problems raised throughout the course;
Production and discussion of the final work.
SCHEDULE
I part:
Prof. Giovanni Damele
August 22nd to September 2nd/16
Hours: 30h
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: Auditorium D, BUT on August 29th and September 1st and 2nd/16, the course will be held in Sector 2, Block “D”, Room 3.
II part:
Prof. Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues
September 26th to 29th/16
Hours: 3pm
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: Auditorium D
Students must attend Prof. Alain Rabatel, on September 19/16, entitled “Les stratégies émotives d’un repentir public offensif”.
Location: Auditorium D, from 2pm to 5pm
This conference will integrate content and workload of the II part of the course.
Bibliography indicated by Prof. Giovanni Damele
Atienza, Manuel (2000): The reasons for law: theories of legal argumentation, São Paulo: Landy.
Gaspar, Alfredo (1998): Institutions of Forensic Rhetoric, Coimbra: Minerva.
Perelman, Chaïm (1979): Logique Juridique, Nouvelle Rhétorique, Toulouse: Dalloz.
Scalia, Antonin (2008): Making your case. The art of persuading judges, Thomson/West.
Bibliography recommended by Prof. Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues
BAIDER, Fabienne; CISLARU, Georgeta (Eds.). Cartographie des emotions: propositions linguistiques et sociolinguistiques. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013.
BALLET, Marion. Peur, espionage, compassion, indignation: l’appel aux émotions dans les campagnes présidentielles (1981-2007). Paris: Dalloz, 2012.
BALIBAR-MRABTI, A. (ed.) Grammaire des sentiments. Langue Française, n.105, 1995.
FRANÇOIS, Jacques. La predication verbale et les cadres predicatifs. Paris / Louvain: Peeters, 2003.
MICHELI, Raphaël. L'émotion argumentée. L´abolition de la peine de mort dans le débat parlementaire français.Paris: Les Éditions du CERF, 2010.
MICHELI, Raphaël. Les émotions dans les discours: modèle d’analyse, empirical perspectives. Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck / Ducolot, 2014.
PLANTIN, Christian. Les bonnes raisons des emotions. Principes et méthodes pourl´étude du discours émotionné.Berne: Peter Lang, 2013.
RABATEL, Alain. Une histoire du point de vue. Paris: Université de Metz, 1997.
RABATEL, Alain. Homo narrans: pour une analyse enonciative et interactionnelle du recit. Take1. Les points de vue et la logique de la narration: Limoges: Éditions Lambert Lucas, 2008.
RABATEL, Alain. Homo narrans. Pour une analysis énonciative et interactionnelle du récit. Take 2. Dialogisme et polyphonie dans le récit. Limoges: Éditions Lambert-Lucas, 2008a.
RODRIGUES, Maria das Graças Soares; PASSEGGI, Luis. Émotions, argumentation et points de vue dans l’affaire Nafissatou Diallo contre Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Une analysis textuelle et discourse