Resumen de Da inexistência à inclusão: análise linguística do direito ao voto das mulheres em Portugal
In this paper we will analyze some legal documents relating to women's right to vote in Portugal. The corpus consists of excerpts from the Constitution of 1822, the Constitutional Charter of 1826, the Constitutions of 1838, 1911, 1933 and 1976, and other relevant electoral laws. As a genre with political and sociocultural features, the constitutional text highlights interactions between power, ideology and gender. Our analysis will point out syntactic-semantic aspects, such as quantification or the grammatical gender. We will argue that the (electoral) law is permeated by ideological considerations about the role of women in society, in a close association between language, law and patriarchal power.
