Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

229a legal genre set out in the first part of chapter 4 to apply the first validation criterion(meaning related to the subject field).Thus, the selected terms can correspond to performative verbs (Austin 1962) such asthe verdictive verbs (Trosborg 1995) absolver 1 (to acquit) and condenar 1 (to sentence) thatare typical of what happens in a judgment and, by implication, related to the subject field oflaw as well. They can correspond to argumentation-related verbs such as alegar 1 (to allege)and assentar 1a (to base) due to the mandatory role of argumentation that the parties in thelawsuit as well as the judges have to provide. The selected terms can also correspond tothose actions that mandatorily occur in a given moment of the judgment such as acordar 1(to agree) and concluir 1 (to conclude). For instance, the former marks the beginning of thethematic part of the judgment which is always initiated by the sentence ―Acordam noSupremo Tribunal de Justiça‖ meaning that the STJ judges agree with the factualdescription and history of the case that follows it. The latter typically marks the ending ofthe syllogism developed in the previous parts of the judgment and evokes the court‘sdecision, which can be favourable or unfavourable.5.1.1.2.2. Verbs without morphological derivativesWe did not find any morphological derivatives of the verbs conferir, impender, incorrer,intentar, propugnar and pugnar in reference works such as Prata (2005) and Prata et al.(2010) or in the corpus. Nevertheless, these verbs were selected because they meet the otherthree criteria and because we considered that they were relevant in the judgments. Theseverbs correspond to 6% of the total amount of selected terms.For instance, pugnar is a verb that denotes an action in which somebody, theaccused or the accuser (in a criminal suit), the petitioner or the respondent (in a civil suit),asks the court to redress some wrong, i.e. it evokes the [Petition] frame. Consider thefollowing contexts of the verb pugnar: