O Direito e a mídia jornalística: a existência de uma linguagem técnico-jurídica popular no Diário de S. Paulo

Abstract

The study deals with the confrontation between the Law and the news media, in light of the possible existence in the journal titled Diário de S. Paulo (ou Diário), a popular technical and legal language. It presents as research problem the view that the legal language, being refractory to socio-cultural variations, is the exclusive property of those who belong to a specific work activity the Law operators. It aims to show the reality of a dialogue between the technical domain and the popular lexicalfield, in full symbiosis aimed to bring about a vulgarization (or banality) inventory vocabulary used by experts. Thus, the study aims to demonstrate that the word restricted to specialized environment (technical language) can overcome their own barriers initiatory universe and reach the public domain, leaving the scientific level to enter the grassroots level in the wake of the journalistic information disclosed in popular periodicals. The methodology was based on data collection in the Diário, which is often associated with the category of popular newspaper, because of its wide circulation and distribution in São Paulo, especially among the public with lower income and little (or no) access to scholarly information. Starting from the premise that legal discourse is essentially selective and elitist, research in this type of journal shows that there is robust evidence to the demarcation of the existence of a popular technical and legal language in the Diário de S. Paulo