A coesão e a clareza textual do/no texto jurídico

Abstract

This article presents the relationship between language and right. It discourses about the origin of written language, the concepts of text and textual genres. It relates power, law and language as elements of obstacles to justice. The literature review is based on works as Koch (2014), Marcuschi (2008), Sytia (2002), Cárcova (1998), Maduro (1994), among others, and supports an investigation about the cohesion and textual clarity. The analysis, in its approach, constitutes an a qualitative research, and in its nature, na action research. The textual genre chosen, in the legal scenario, is the monocratic decision. This genre is present in several publications on the website of the Supremo Tribunal Federal. However, only fragments of decisions are analyzed, in order to preserve the parties involved in the processes and the authors of the text. Following analysis, the article concludes that cohesion is intrinsic to textual clarity, and both elements are indispensable to the legal text.