“Ele vai negar tudo”: O estudo interacional de uma estória de violência doméstica contra a mulher narrada em entrevista de pré-mediação familiar judicial

In this article, we study the narrative of a woman, allegedly the victimof gender-based violence, produced spontaneously in a legal family pre-mediationinterview, in a child custody lawsuit. In a qualitative research work, in light ofthe theoretical-methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, we analy-zed moments of this narrative as sequential objects, arranged in turns of talk-in-interaction. We describe the types of violence narrated, the way they occurred,and the actions of the social actors involved. Furthermore, we relate the narra-tive episodes that make up the plot to the ‘Maria da Penha’ Law and the cycle ofviolence. The results point to a complex network of personal and institutional re-lationships that deal with violence against women, in which everyone is an actor,whether in combat or in the perpetuation of the cycle of violence. We relate themicro-interactional results to macro-social and public policy issues.