Ethos institucional e situação estásica atípica

o papel do terceiro em episódios conflituosos em ambiente de julgamento do STF

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the conflictive/stasic interactions (Plantin, 2008, 2025, Grácio, 2013) among ministers of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) during trial. Although it’s a highly regulated environment, conflictive situations eventually arise, and the President of STF, the minister who presides over the sessions, is responsible for dealing with such episodes. As a theoretical framework, we used Plantin's Dialogic Model, which focuses on an argumentative question and on the roles of the Proponent (the one who proposes), the Opponent (the one who opposes), and a Third Party, who can act in different ways, such as mediating the conflict (Damasceno-Morais, 2022). Based on the analysis, we identified as a typical stasic situation the situation in which the divergence is centered on the matter under judgment, consistent with the institutional ethos/image (Maingueneau, 2020); and, as an atypical stasic situation, the situation that is centered on an intervening issue (unrelated to the trial), deviating from the protocol. In this last scenario, we observe a peculiar performance by the President of the Supreme Court, who, in the role of Third mediator, neutralizes the atypical stasic situation, returning to the typical stasic situation, and thus fostering the institutional ethos expected for that environment.