Questão nº 28
Questão de Língua Inglesa · CEBRASPE Câmara dos Deputados 2025 - NS (nº 28)
Little attention has been devoted to legislation’s point of origin — the legislative drafting process. Such commentary as has been offered is essentially technical in nature. However, the relationship between drafter and text is the furthest thing from a technical, value-neutral enterprise.
For example: a question confronted by every drafter and one with obvious ethical and political implications is, “How much is to be left to the drafter’s discretion?” Obviously, the drafter who less frequently inquires about the client’s desires will have greater latitude to exercise discretion and accordingly can play more of an “advocacy” role in shaping the legislation, a situation which can lead to his or her sidesteping the duty of abiding by a client’s decisions concerning the objectives of representation.
But this is not to paint too malevolent a portrait of legislative drafting personnel. They are not a fifth column of subversives who pursue personal advocacy objectives in everything that they do. Indeed, many may even be unaware of their power. They are, though, continually called upon to exercise personal judgment in the performance of their duties. Such judgments are frequently policy judgments, and drafting decisions are often influenced consciously or subconsciously by the advocacy agenda of the individual drafter. The legislative drafter plays a more active role in the process than is generally accorded to the stereotypical scribe, laboring in nameless and faceless obscurity to produce a bill draft.
About the preceding text, judge the following items.
In “But this is not to paint too malevolent a portrait” (first sentence of the third paragraph), “this” does not refer to a specific previous word, but to the entire statement made in the second paragraph.
Resposta comentada
Referência pronominal é quando uma palavra (como this, that, it) aponta para algo já dito antes, evitando repetição. Essa "coisa" apontada pode ser uma palavra só, uma expressão ou todo um trecho/ideia — nesse último caso chamamos de referência situacional ou resumitiva (o pronome "resume" o que veio antes).
- Correta: Certo. O this de "But this is not to paint too malevolent a portrait" não retoma uma palavra isolada do parágrafo 2 — ele resume toda a ideia do parágrafo anterior (a de que o drafter pode ter papel de "advocacy" e até se esquivar de deveres). É referência resumitiva/sentencial, não lexical.
Fica de olho: a banca costuma trocar a direção da referência — dizendo que this retoma uma palavra específica (ex.: "discretion", "advocacy" ou "legislation") ou que aponta para o parágrafo seguinte. Se o item afirmar que o pronome se refere a um termo pontual, quase sempre está errado: aqui o this abraça o parágrafo inteiro como bloco de sentido.
Fonte: CEBRASPE Câmara dos Deputados 2025 - NS Conhecimentos Comuns. Reproduzida para fins de estudo.