ABSTRACT
This paper highlights the role of metaphors within the process of objectification of social representations, taking in account the key notions for understanding the folk theories. Nowadays, the continuous birth of new social objects the metaphors facilitate and economize time and cognitive effort of communicative pragmatics. Previous research utilized the Model of Strategy Argumentative (MSA) as a methodological way to analyze the discourse about the Child and Adolescent Law (CAL). This methodology seeks not only the structure of discourse, the types and strength of arguments, but also and mainly the speaker intention while arguing trying to persuade a specific auditory. Findings showed that different groups of social agents used metaphors like judge as fireman, to organize, orient and justify their posture and praxis related to the object CAL.
Keywords:
social representations; metaphors objectification; analysis of rhetoric discourse; social agents