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The community of jurists: conceptual anatomy of a semiotic group

The community of jurists: conceptual anatomy of a semiotic group

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[PA] Aspects of the Prosaic (Semir Badir, Carolina Lindenberg Lemos)
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Eduardo C. B. Bittar
University of São Paulo (USP)
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Abstract:The paper analyzes the « groupe sémiotique » of jurists (Greimas 1976: 53). In doing so, the paper takes the community of jurists as a discursive community, considering that legal language allows sharing a common semantic universe. Titled « juriscommunauté », the community of jurists is partitive (Fontanille 2021: 31), forming an « actant collectif politique », which promotes the sharing of the tonic, controversial, polemical legal knowledge. The notion of « actant collectif » is complex (Fontanille 2021: 22) and so the community of jurists is not defined as such, neither by the number of actors (quantity), nor by impersonality (objectivity), nor by the vagueness of its members (anonymity). Thus, it seems to correspond to a very particular form of « actant collectif », namely the « actant paradigmatique » (Greimas, Landowski 1976: 97). The « juriscommunauté » is described by its characteristics, which are: i.) discursive; ii.) professional; iii.) specialised; iv.) traditional; v.) hierarchical; vi.) heterogeneous; vii.) corporative; viii.) closed; ix.) multicentric; x.) autonomous. Within it, the normal state of the « juriscommunauté » is permanent debate. It revolves around the idea of « justice », knowing that community unity is produced by the sharing of symbols, practices, rites and codes among its members. It is thus a community that shares common ideals, in a continuous state of symbolic struggle. The result of the work of jurists is the writing of the « common book » of Law, as a collective, polyphonic, polycentric and polemical writing.

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