Metáforas sobre a maternidade: uma análise cognitivo-discursiva sobre acórdãos proferidos em recursos sobre a destituição do poder familiar materno

Abstract

Law and the Judiciary are places of production of knowledge about motherhood. We do an analysis of the use of laws about the exercise of maternity in judicial processes, through the identification of metaphors about mothers in decisions of appeal in parental removal actions. Not only the seminal studies of Lakoff and Johnson (2002), but also the Metaphor-led Discourse Analysis Approach (Cameron, 1999; CAMERON et al., 2009; CAMERON, LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2007) were used to identify metaphors about motherhood, with the conception that the theory of legal argumentation should be constructed in interdisciplinary terms, with the help of studies on discourse developed by linguistics. Such approach aligns with the interdisciplinary perspective in the human and social sciences (PEDERSON, 2016). The identified metaphors indicated the use of common sense views on motherhood as the basis for the removal of maternal family power, contrary to the constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination.