Cette thèse étudie la sémantique des constructions gradables du point de vue de la langue des signes, en se basant sur les données de la Langue des Signes Italienne (LIS). Des travaux récents sur les langues des signes (Lillo-Martin and Klima (1990), Sandler & Lillo-Martin (2006) Schlenker (2011), entre autres) ont montré l’importance de les inclure dans le domaine empirique des recherches sémantiques. En effet, la modalité visuelle et l’iconicité permettent parfois de réaliser de façon explicite des éléments abstraits du système logique du langage qui restent implicites dans les langues parlées. Ainsi, la contribution unique des langues des signes dans les débats sémantiques ouvre de nouvelles perspectives pour mieux comprendre le fonctionnement du système logique des langues.La thèse contient trois études de cas. La première étude se concentre sur les adjectifs gradables et les constructions comparatives. Nous proposons des arguments en faveur de l’existence des variables de degrés (Kennedy 1999) : i) en LIS, une classe d’adjectifs gradables représente explicitement les degrés et les échelles dans l’espace des signes, (ii) grâce à un morphisme iconique, les échelles sont représentées comme un ensemble de points ordonnés dont chaque point représente un degré, (iii) les expressions qui se réfèrent aux degrés peuvent devenir des antécédents pour des pronoms de degré, comme dans le domaine nominal, temporel et modal. De plus, nous montrons que ces constructions sont des comparatives mixtes qui expriment une comparaison explicite et que les trois différents marqueurs comparatifs (MORE, iconic-more et ∃--icon-more) présentent différentes propriétés morpho- syntaxiques et sémantiques : le premier marqueur, MORE, n’est pas iconique et se comporte plus ou moins comme le comparatif anglais « more ». Par contre, on observe une différence intéressante entre les marqueurs iconiques ∃-icon-more et iconic-more. En effet, ils présentent différentes propriétés articulatoires. Le marqueur iconic-more a un mouvement qui se termine par une forte décélération alors que le mouvement du marqueur ∃-icon-more ne l’a pas. Nous montrons que la présence et l’absence de décélération sont associées à des interprétations sémantiques différentes. La présence du marqueur iconic-more donne lieu à une lecture exacte alors que ∃-icon-more donne lieu à une lecture existentielle. Pour expliquer ce contraste, nous soutenons que le lieu marqué par une forte décélération du mouvement correspond à un pronom déictique. En revanche, les marqueurs ∃-icon-more et MORE ont une interprétation existentielle comme dans les langues parlées. Dans la deuxième étude, nous étendons le domaine empirique des constructions gradables en incluant parmi celles-ci les constructions temporelles. Dans les constructions temporelles, les moments auxquels se passent les événements et les relations temporelles sont explicitement représentées dans l’espace de signation grâce à un morphisme iconique qui représente l’échelle temporelle comme une ligne horizontale. Ces constructions possèdent exactement les mêmes propriétés sémantiques que les constructions comparatives. Plus précisément, les marqueurs temporels ont des interprétations déictiques et existentielles parallèles à celles des constructions comparatives et des pronoms anaphoriques pouvant être utilisés pour se référer aux moments représentés explicitement dans espace de signation Enfin, la dernière est une étude comparative entre les composants iconiques des adjectifs absolus de la LIS et un geste co-verbal en italien ayant approximativement le sens de « complètement ». Nous montrons que la composante iconique et le geste co-verbal apportent tous les deux une contribution non assertive et que leur contribution peut ne pas être prise en compte (ne pas être copiée) dans la résolution de l’ellipse. Ces propriétés suggèrent que l’on peut analyser la composante iconique des adjectifs absolus de la LIS comme un élément gestuel. / The aim of this dissertation is to investigate gradable constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS). In the semantic literature, the debate about the existence of degrees as ontological elements has been very active. In this dissertation, we show that Italian Sign Language pro- vides evidence not only for the existence of degrees, but also for degree-denoting variables. First, degrees can be overtly represented as ordered points (i.e loci) in signing space by means of an iconic mapping. Second, degree expressions can be established on points in space (i.e loci), which can be anaphorically linked to later pointing pronouns, as in the nominal do- main, temporal and modal domains. Additionally, focusing on comparative constructions, we show that articulatory properties of comparative markers influence the interpretation of comparatives. Specifically, the presence/absence of sharp deceleration makes visible a specific degree which is then interpreted as a deictic element. Furthermore, we show that the visibility of degrees is not just limited to the adjectival domain but that it extends to the temporal domain, but it extends to the temporal domain. Specifically, in temporal constructions the temporal scale is iconically represented as a set of ordered points in the horizontal plane. Moreover, temporal markers, as comparatives markers, express a relation between the time arguments of the two clauses. To account for these properties, we propose an analysis of temporal clauses in terms of comparative clauses. Finally, we move to LIS absolute gradable adjectives and show that the iconic component of some of these adjectives can be analyzed as co-speech gestures. However, while co-speech gestures are optional, the iconic component of LIS absolute adjectives is an integral part of the adjectives and it cannot be omitted.

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) provides many individuals who have little or no functional speech with a means to enter the world of communication. Aided and/or unaided symbols are used as a means of reception and expression to create shared meaning. The selection of an appropriate symbol set/system is vital and iconicity plays a central role in this process. The Western-based symbol set, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) (Johnson, 1981), is readily available and widely used in South Africa, despite little information existing on its iconicity to South African populations with disabilities. This study aimed to determine the iconicity of Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) for children with English Additional Language (EAL) and intellectual disability. A quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive design was used. Thirty participants between the ages of 12;00 and 15;11 (years; months) with EAL and intellectual disability were required to identify 16 PCS presented thematically on a ‘bed-making’ communication overlay in response to a gloss read out by the researcher. The results indicated that, overall, the 16 PCS were relatively iconic to the participants. The results also indicated that the iconicity of PCS can be manipulated and enhanced and that it can be influenced by other PCS that are used simultaneously on the communication overlay. The reasons for these findings are described. The clinical and theoretical implications of this study’s results are discussed, followed by a critical evaluation of this study and, finally, recommendations for future research are suggested. / Dissertation (Master of Arts)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) / unrestricted

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In this diploma thesis we build on the topic of mental operation used in Jirásek's orientation test of school readiness. We aim to explain which mental operations are crucial for acquiring the skill of looped writing reproducing. We are looking for children's ideas about writing, in particular for their way of expressing the ideas about looped writing. Our theory is based on Piagetian approach and we also do a comparison to other authors, namely Anette Karmiloff Smith, Emilia Ferreiro and Ana Teberosky, Esther Adi-Japha and Norman Freeman. Data obtained using cross-sectional research on preschool children (of age from three to six years) suggest that there is a link between a success in the test of looped writting reproducing and iconicity overcoming. On the other hand, no link was found between acquiring the skill of quazi-iconicity and looped writting reproducing. KEYWORDS Preschool age, test of school readiness, looped writing, mental operation, iconicity, quazi- iconicity, cross-sectional research.

This thesis is concerned with structural iconicity and its effects on possessive classification. The Iconicity-of-distance hypothesis argues that the linguistic distance between a possessor and a possessum reflects the conceptual distance, and is therefore smaller in inalienable possession. The role of distance iconicity in language processing was tested using the artificial language learning paradigm. An experiment was designed to investigate whether speakers of Czech will learn an iconically structured grammar better. The experiment conducted with 40 participants did not show significant differences between the two experimental groups. However, the evidence is inconlusive and the data suggest that structural iconicity could influence processing. The results also suggest that speaker of Czech are able to use alienability as a category of language.

Depuis les travaux de Haiman (1985), l’iconicité de la syntaxe est un sujet à la mode. Ce sujet s’impose particulièrement dans le cas des langues isolantes, à morphologie réduite, où l’ordre des mots est le marqueur principal des structures syntaxiques et se trouve, par là, au centre de la grammaire. L’ordre des mots dans une phrase mime-t-il l’ordre des événements dont on parle ou reflète-t-il l’ordre même du discours, ou est-il arbitraire ? Dans la lignée des travaux sur l’iconicité de Peirce (1930), Haiman (1980, 1985), Tai (1985) etc., nous appelons ‘iconicité temporelle’ le fait que la succession dans le temps, c’est-à-dire dans la chaîne parlée, des constituants d’un énoncé mime la succession des événements dans un monde de référence. Nous avons étendu le champ d’application de cette ‘iconicité temporelle’ des événements aux procès et, de là, aux phases qui les composent. L’objectif de cette thèse est de tenter de ‘faire marcher’ l’idée d’‘iconicité de la séquence 'jusqu’au bout, en partant d’une définition des CVS la plus large possible permettant d’englober toute suite de constituants verbaux ne présentant aucun connecteur. Cela permet d’étendre l’étude à toute séquence de procès décomposable en sous-procès dans le monde de référence ou en sous-événements dans le monde du discours (systèmes protase-apodose hypothétique et temporel). Si l’iconicité est partout, c’est que les marques séquentielles (l’ordre des constituants), avec les informations sur les prédicats (valence et Aktionsart) codées dans le lexique, sont essentielles au fonctionnement des langues isolantes du type du chinois, et que ces marques séquentielles obéissent le plus souvent, au moins dans le cas du chinois, à l’iconicité. / Since Haiman (1985), the iconicity of syntax is a hot topic. This subject is particularly important in the case of isolating languages, with reduced morphology, in which the word order is the main marker of syntactic structures, and, is, therefore, at the centre of grammar. Does the word order in a sentence mimic the order of the events one is speaking of or does it reflect the very order of the discourse, or is it arbitrary? In the line of Peirce (1930), Haiman (1980, 1985), Tai (1985), etc., we call ‘temporal iconicity’ the fact that succession in the time, or in the spoken chain, of constituents of a statement mimics the succession of events in a world of reference. We have extended the scope of this ‘temporal iconicity’ from events to processes and hence to the phases that compose them. The objective of this thesis is to try to develop the idea of ‘iconicity of the temporal sequence’ to its very end, starting from a definition of SVC (serial verb construction) as wide as possible to encompass any sequence of verbal constituents without overt connector. In such a way, it becomes possible to extend the study to any sequence of decomposable processes in sub-tracks in the reference world or in sub-events in the discourse world (conditional and temporal protasis-apodosis systems). If the iconicity is everywhere, it is because that the sequential marks (the constituents order), with the informations about the predicates (valence and Aktionsart) encoded in the lexicon, are essential to the functioning of the isolating languages of the type of Chinese, and that these sequential marks obey most often, at least in the case of Chinese, to iconicity.

Este estudo aborda a construção da relação de causalidade dentro do discurso jurídico, partindo do pressuposto de que a argumentação é fundamental para o desenvolvimento do raciocínio jurídico cujo elemento estruturante é a causalidade. Para realizar este trabalho, utilizamos o método dialético, visando estudar a causalidade dentro do discurso jurídico, ciente de que a causalidade, conquanto tenha representação sintática em nível superficial, não está restrita à classificação de orações. Portanto, tal estudo tem como objetivo averiguar como se constrói a causalidade no discurso jurídico, considerando que há diversos gêneros textuais que perpassam este domínio discursivo. Para tanto, realizamos dois tipos de pesquisa: bibliográfica e documental. Em princípio, fizemos aquela para distinguir os gêneros textuais no discurso jurídico. Para tanto, utilizamos, como escopo teórico, o contrato de comunicação de Charaudeau, o princípio de subjetividade de Benveniste e a noção de dialogismo de Bakhtin. Deste modo, restringimo-nos a dois gêneros: gênero decisório (sentenças) e gênero processual (petições iniciais e contestações). Além disso, para se verificar a causalidade, algumas teorias de cunho pragmático foram vistas. Por isso, abordamos, basicamente, três vertentes teóricas das quais se utilizaram apenas os princípios que poderiam auxiliar no processo de análise do corpus. Neste sentido, vimos a noção de topos, dentro da Semântica Argumentativa de Ducrot e Anscombre; a Iconicidade, integrante da Semiótica de Peirce, e os Atos de Fala de Austin e Searle. Observamos também como a causalidade é percebida dentro da língua portuguesa. Já o discurso jurídico foi visto sob a óptica da argumentação, portanto aludimos à Nova Retórica de Perelman e à retórica de Aristóteles. A pesquisa documental, por sua vez, verificou como se materializa a causalidade em textos jurídicos. Para realizar isso, o corpus foi composto de 16 peças jurídicas, dentre as quais 4 são petições iniciais, 4 contestações, pertencentes ao mesmo processo, e 8 são sentenças de processos variados. A análise quantitativa visou à averiguação do aspecto icônico da causalidade, viu-se a incidência da construção (causal, consecutiva, condicional, final desenvolvida/reduzida), a manifestação do conectivo ou da expressão conectiva e a posição dos mesmos dentro da construção argumentativa que envolvia a causalidade. Além disso, empregamos a análise qualitativa para verificar a noção de tópica e o emprego de ato de fala indireto nas construções de causalidade. No caso da tópica, fizemos uma amostra de algumas ocorrências do corpus, para se vislumbrar que os argumentos construídos, dentro do princípio de causalidade, são validados por um topos. Na verdade, a estrutura de causalidade, no escopo da argumentação, assemelha-se a um silogismo, sem o necessário rigor da lógica. Quanto aos atos de fala indiretos, vimos que a causalidade se manifesta por meio de outras construções, além da causal, que permitem a visualização desta relação sob a lente de construções várias, inclusive justaposta e reduzida. Assim, a causalidade é uma estratégia eficaz no processo argumentativo jurídico, especialmente quando se atenta para as nuanças que envolvem a materialização desta relação. / This study approaches the construction of the causality relationship inside of the juridical speech, from the presupposition that argumentation is indispensable for the development of the juridical reasoning whose organizing element is the causality. To accomplish this work, we used the dialectic method, in order to study the causality inside the juridical speech, knowing that the causality, although has syntactic representation in superficial level, is not restricted to conjunctive classification. Therefore, this study aims to search how the causality is built in the juridical speech, considering that there are several kinds of texts in this discursive domain. Thus, we purpose two kinds of research: bibliographical and documental researches. At first, we made one to distinguish the kinds of texts in the juridical speech. For this, we used, as theoretical mark, the Contract of Communication of Charaudeau, the Benvenistes principle of subjectivity and the dialogism concept of Bakhtin. Then, we delimitated it to two genres: decision genre (verdicts) and procedural genre (initial petitions and replies). Besides, to verify the causality, we saw some pragmatic theories. Therefore, we approach, basically, three theoretical sources of which had been used only the principles that could assist in the process of analysis of the corpus. Then, we saw the notion of topos, inside of the Argumentative Semantics of Ducrot and Anscombre; iconicity, inside of Peirce's Semiotics, and the Actions of Speech of Austin and Searle. We also observed as the causality is noticed inside of the Portuguese language. In turn, the juridical speech was seen under the optical of the argument, therefore we mentioned to the New Rhetoric of Perelman and Aristotle's rhetoric. The documentary research, in turn, verifies how the causality is materialized in juridical texts. To accomplish that, the corpus was composed of 16 procedural texts, among which 4 are initial petitions, 4 are replies, belonging to the same process, and 8 are sentences of varied processes. The quantitative analysis sought to the verification of the iconic aspect of the causality, it was seen incidence of the construction, the manifestation of the connective or the connective expression and the position of the same ones inside of the argumentative construction that involved the causality. Besides, we used the qualitative analysis to verify the notion of topical and the use of indirect speech action in the causality constructions. In the case of the topical, we made a sample of some occurrences of the corpus, to glimpse that the constructed arguments, inside of the causality principle, are validated by a topos. Actually, the causality structure, in the mark of the argument, resembles a syllogism, without the necessary rigidity of the logic. About the indirect speech actions, the causality shows through other constructions, beyond the causal, that they allow the visualization of this relation under the lens of several constructions, including juxtaposed and reduced. Therefore, the causality is an effective strategy in the juridical argumentative process, especially when it is looked at the nuances that involve the materialization of this relation.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Esta tese dedicou-se a descrever e interpretar a tessitura textual dos fenômenos insólitos no romance Sombras de Reis Barbudos, de José J. Veiga, com base na associação entre a Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal e a Linguística de Córpus . Centrou-se, especificamente, nas marcas linguísticas que representam ideias ou conduzem o intérprete à percepção de que o insólito é construído no texto por meio itens léxicos que constituem pistas icônicas. Merecem especial interesse, sobretudo, os substantivos, que, por serem palavras com alta iconicidade, participam da construção/representação de fenômenos insólitos e criam, por meio da trilha léxica, o itinerário de leitura para o texto-córpus. Para que os resultados fossem significativos, análise apoiou-se nos recursos digitais da Linguística de Córpus (SARDINHA, 2004; 2009), que possibilitaram realizar uma pesquisa baseada em um córpus. A utilização da Linguística de Córpus como metodologia permitiu levantar, quantificar e tabular os signos que corroboram com a compreensão da incongruência e da iconicidade lexical dos fenômenos insólitos em um texto literário, identificando os substantivos-nódulos e seus colocados, para avaliá-los quanto à incompatibilidade das escolhas lexicais realizadas por José J. Veiga em relação às estruturas lexicogramaticais da Língua Portuguesa. Fundamentou-se a discussão no insólito como categoria essencial do fantástico modal (BESSIÈRE, 2009; COVIZZI, 1978, FURTADO, s.d.; PRADA OROPREZA, 2006); na Semiótica de extração peirceana, com enfoque na Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal (SIMÕES, 2007,2009) e na colocação lexical (BÉNJOINT, 1994; SINCLAIR, 1987, 1991, 2004; TAGNIN, 1989). A tese demonstra que a incongruência e a iconicidade lexical são identificadas a partir da seleção vocabular obtida pelo processamento digital e pelo confronto com o Córpus do Português. A análise comprova que os substantivos, como categorias linguísticas caracterizáveis semanticamente, têm a função designatória ou de nomeação na arquitetura de um texto em que se manifesta o insólito. Revela também que a incongruência lexical constitui-se em uma chave para a construção do ilógico, mágico, fantástico, misterioso, sobrenatural, irreal e suprarreal no texto-córpus / The objective herein is to describe and understand the textual tessiture of the insolite phenomena in the novel Sombras de Reis Barbudos, by José J. Veiga, based on the association between the Theory of Verbal Iconicity and Corpus Linguistics. It focused specifically in the linguistic marks that represent ideas or lead the interpreter to the perception of how the insolite is constructed in the text, by means of lexical items that constitute iconic hints. In the study, nouns are given a special attention, above all the other word categories, because, being words with a high inconicity level, they take part in the construction/representation of the insolite phenomena and create, by means of the lexical path, the reading itinerary to the text-corpus. In order to have a significant result, the research had as support the digital resources of Corpus Linguistics (SARDINHA, 2004; 2009), which made it possible to fulfill a research based on only one corpus. The use of Corpus Linguistics as methodology allowed to rise, quantify and tabulate the signs that corroborate the comprehension of the incongruence and the lexical iconicity of the insolite phenomena in a literary text, identifying the node nouns and their collocates to evaluate them in relation to the incompatibility of the lexical choices fulfilled by José J. Veiga in comparison with the grammar-lexical structures in Portuguese. This study justified discussion on the insolite as an essential category of the Fantastic as a mode (BESSIÈRE, 2009; COVIZZI, 1978; FURTADO, s.d.; PRADA OROPREZA, 2006); on the Peircean Semiotic, which highlights the Verbal Iconicity Theory (SIMÕES, 2007, 2009) and on the lexical collocation (BÉNJOINT, 1994; SINCLAIR, 1987, 1991, 2004; TAGNIN, 1989). The thesis demonstrates that the incongruence and the lexical iconicity are identified by vocabulary obtained by digital processing and confrontation with Portuguese Corpus. The analysis proves that nouns, as a linguistic class that can be semantically categorized, have either designation or nominative functions in the construction of a text in which the insolite is manifested. It also reveals that the lexical incongruence constitutes itself a key to the construction of the illogical, magical, fantastic, mysterious, supernatural, unreal and super real in the corpus text

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Este estudo aborda a construção da relação de causalidade dentro do discurso jurídico, partindo do pressuposto de que a argumentação é fundamental para o desenvolvimento do raciocínio jurídico cujo elemento estruturante é a causalidade. Para realizar este trabalho, utilizamos o método dialético, visando estudar a causalidade dentro do discurso jurídico, ciente de que a causalidade, conquanto tenha representação sintática em nível superficial, não está restrita à classificação de orações. Portanto, tal estudo tem como objetivo averiguar como se constrói a causalidade no discurso jurídico, considerando que há diversos gêneros textuais que perpassam este domínio discursivo. Para tanto, realizamos dois tipos de pesquisa: bibliográfica e documental. Em princípio, fizemos aquela para distinguir os gêneros textuais no discurso jurídico. Para tanto, utilizamos, como escopo teórico, o contrato de comunicação de Charaudeau, o princípio de subjetividade de Benveniste e a noção de dialogismo de Bakhtin. Deste modo, restringimo-nos a dois gêneros: gênero decisório (sentenças) e gênero processual (petições iniciais e contestações). Além disso, para se verificar a causalidade, algumas teorias de cunho pragmático foram vistas. Por isso, abordamos, basicamente, três vertentes teóricas das quais se utilizaram apenas os princípios que poderiam auxiliar no processo de análise do corpus. Neste sentido, vimos a noção de topos, dentro da Semântica Argumentativa de Ducrot e Anscombre; a Iconicidade, integrante da Semiótica de Peirce, e os Atos de Fala de Austin e Searle. Observamos também como a causalidade é percebida dentro da língua portuguesa. Já o discurso jurídico foi visto sob a óptica da argumentação, portanto aludimos à Nova Retórica de Perelman e à retórica de Aristóteles. A pesquisa documental, por sua vez, verificou como se materializa a causalidade em textos jurídicos. Para realizar isso, o corpus foi composto de 16 peças jurídicas, dentre as quais 4 são petições iniciais, 4 contestações, pertencentes ao mesmo processo, e 8 são sentenças de processos variados. A análise quantitativa visou à averiguação do aspecto icônico da causalidade, viu-se a incidência da construção (causal, consecutiva, condicional, final desenvolvida/reduzida), a manifestação do conectivo ou da expressão conectiva e a posição dos mesmos dentro da construção argumentativa que envolvia a causalidade. Além disso, empregamos a análise qualitativa para verificar a noção de tópica e o emprego de ato de fala indireto nas construções de causalidade. No caso da tópica, fizemos uma amostra de algumas ocorrências do corpus, para se vislumbrar que os argumentos construídos, dentro do princípio de causalidade, são validados por um topos. Na verdade, a estrutura de causalidade, no escopo da argumentação, assemelha-se a um silogismo, sem o necessário rigor da lógica. Quanto aos atos de fala indiretos, vimos que a causalidade se manifesta por meio de outras construções, além da causal, que permitem a visualização desta relação sob a lente de construções várias, inclusive justaposta e reduzida. Assim, a causalidade é uma estratégia eficaz no processo argumentativo jurídico, especialmente quando se atenta para as nuanças que envolvem a materialização desta relação. / This study approaches the construction of the causality relationship inside of the juridical speech, from the presupposition that argumentation is indispensable for the development of the juridical reasoning whose organizing element is the causality. To accomplish this work, we used the dialectic method, in order to study the causality inside the juridical speech, knowing that the causality, although has syntactic representation in superficial level, is not restricted to conjunctive classification. Therefore, this study aims to search how the causality is built in the juridical speech, considering that there are several kinds of texts in this discursive domain. Thus, we purpose two kinds of research: bibliographical and documental researches. At first, we made one to distinguish the kinds of texts in the juridical speech. For this, we used, as theoretical mark, the Contract of Communication of Charaudeau, the Benvenistes principle of subjectivity and the dialogism concept of Bakhtin. Then, we delimitated it to two genres: decision genre (verdicts) and procedural genre (initial petitions and replies). Besides, to verify the causality, we saw some pragmatic theories. Therefore, we approach, basically, three theoretical sources of which had been used only the principles that could assist in the process of analysis of the corpus. Then, we saw the notion of topos, inside of the Argumentative Semantics of Ducrot and Anscombre; iconicity, inside of Peirce's Semiotics, and the Actions of Speech of Austin and Searle. We also observed as the causality is noticed inside of the Portuguese language. In turn, the juridical speech was seen under the optical of the argument, therefore we mentioned to the New Rhetoric of Perelman and Aristotle's rhetoric. The documentary research, in turn, verifies how the causality is materialized in juridical texts. To accomplish that, the corpus was composed of 16 procedural texts, among which 4 are initial petitions, 4 are replies, belonging to the same process, and 8 are sentences of varied processes. The quantitative analysis sought to the verification of the iconic aspect of the causality, it was seen incidence of the construction, the manifestation of the connective or the connective expression and the position of the same ones inside of the argumentative construction that involved the causality. Besides, we used the qualitative analysis to verify the notion of topical and the use of indirect speech action in the causality constructions. In the case of the topical, we made a sample of some occurrences of the corpus, to glimpse that the constructed arguments, inside of the causality principle, are validated by a topos. Actually, the causality structure, in the mark of the argument, resembles a syllogism, without the necessary rigidity of the logic. About the indirect speech actions, the causality shows through other constructions, beyond the causal, that they allow the visualization of this relation under the lens of several constructions, including juxtaposed and reduced. Therefore, the causality is an effective strategy in the juridical argumentative process, especially when it is looked at the nuances that involve the materialization of this relation.